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Show DIARY Of CAPTAIN SCOTT TELLS AWFUL STORY Of DISASTER ljtXDON. Feb. M -A numbe-r of de-tad de-tad la of the dlaaater In whi-n at tain Scott, and four of hla men pertehed In the antarctio ars brought hers in apedal die-patchee die-patchee of the Cent raj Newe earvloa. Cepteln Oat as ev1diiiv aet out from the tent In which tha four man had all hut euccurobed tn starvation snd axhauatlon to brave deeth alone in the bllaeard which had overwhelmed them. After a brave trusTJtle for weeke. with hie handa froet-bltien. Oatse declared to hie romrmdes that ha was going to est out Iti tha storm and didn't know when he would come bevk. He left the tent ami ha aaa never aean again. He evidently knew ha wsa aettlng out to meet hie dee Ih alone The othere later tried 'to push on hut were forced Into camp again on Mat ih 21. after ntn dava a (.niggle In the b ll see rd . Food a iu J f us I w e rs both ex-ha.ua ex-ha.ua ted. Explorer 'n Laat Meaaage. PrThsMy raallelng tliat hla partr wae doomed. Captain Bootl entered In hie diary four dava later on March i. a "rneseage to the ihjIiIIc." In thle he de-clare1 de-clare1 that the dlaaatsr waa not due to faulty organisation but to mlsfortuna He eaJd nfFbody In the world could expect to eucesafiillv encounter auch temperaturee end atorma aa thev had met on the harrier, har-rier, which an retarded their progress When thev arrived within elsvsn mi.ea off Ona Ton depot thev only had fuel for lone hot me.il and food for two deys. The doomed explorer wrote epologetl-I epologetl-I rally of hla "rough notee." lie eald theee and the nodlea muat tall tha tale. He appealed to hla countryman for the care of thoae dep.Dil.nt upon tha pertah-Ing pertah-Ing eiptorera. Calm Erected. Areordlua to th. epecfaJ dl.patchea. tha Terra Nova relief party which found tha bodle. raaul t atmpla burial ritual over tham. A oaJrn waa erected over the bodlea. The relief expedition then aet out tn .cor- h for th. hody of aptalD Oete. but although they covered over twenty miles, they dlacovered no trace of hla body It wae with great difficulty that th. party brought ba k all of tha recorda. Including Amundaan a latter to the king of Norway, and a laiga quantity of gao logical .partmana March !t. tl. tha date of Captain rVott laat m.aeage to tha publlo, la believed be-lieved to hav. been written only four dava before death overtook tha party |