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Show SOUTH POLf SEARCH CAPTAIN 8COTT, THE DARING ENGLISHMAN, BATTLES WITH STORM AND COLD. WITHIN 150 MILES OF THE AXIS Hut Point through 15 mlle of bar wire. This telephone has already proved extremely useful for reporting the movement of parties, pending changes of weather. Start Delayed to Cave Ponies. All plans and preparations for tho southern journey are now completa and despite the accident of last season sea-son we have great hope of success. The necessity of getting the utmost out of our remaining ponies has decided de-cided me not to expose them to great cold. We shall therefore start later than ordinarily intended. walls and the animals had suffered very badly, so I decided to retir to Hut Point without delay. A Close Call. There at 2 a. m., on March 1, th tired condition of the ponies obliged the party to camp at 4:30. Bowers, awakened by a noise, found the ice broken all around the camp, and moving mov-ing with the heavy swell. One pony had disappeared from the picketing line and was not seen again. Hastily packing their sledges, the par'.y decided decid-ed to try and work southwest over the packed ice. With infinite difficulty diffi-culty the sledges were dragged, the ponies jumping from floe to floe to- n Story of Adventures the Captain Tells of Loss of Ponies, Dogs and Supplies Party Faced Death Many Times When Last Heard of Six Explorers Were Headed for Pole. SPECIAL NOTICE : Cat. Robert F. ficoll'j narrative of his explorations in the antartlc published below was la-nurd la-nurd by the New York Times company as a book, duly entered for copyright and publicly exposed for sale, the aaine belnpr Its first publication anywhere In the world. lis reproduction In this newspaper Is of course duly authorized. Its reproduction elsewhere In the United Slates In any form except by permission from the New Vorlt Times company is for bidden. Copyright 191 2 by the New York Times company, (all rights reserved). Copyrighted Copy-righted In the I'nited Kinndom by the f'cntral News, Limited., London. Registered Reg-istered In the Department of Agriculture. Agricul-ture. Copyright Uranch. Dominion of Canada, by tho Central News Limited, London. Special Cable to The New York Times. Akaroa, New Zealand, Tuesday, April 2. Lieut. Pennell, commander of the Terra Nova, of the British antarctic expedition of 1910, which arrived here yesterday, brought with him a long and intensely intnresting account of the work and experiences of the expedition tip to January third last, written expressly for the New York Times by Capt Robert F. Scott, the leader of the expedition. Capt. Scott's story is as follows: By Robert F. Scott. Macmurdo Sound, Oct. 30, 1911 Shortly after tho departure of tho Depot-Laying party from Cape Evans (in January 25, 1911, the sea ice broke at South Cape and severed coniniuni rations with the ship. The Depot party consisting of 12 men, eight November 24, latitude 81.13 S W left Hut Point on the eve of November Novem-ber 2, having decided to march by night and rest during the day to give the ponies the benefit of warm day temperatures. We reached Corner Camp this morning. Traveling south for 60 miles we followed the tracts of the motors, then we found the machines ma-chines abandoned. The party had proceeded onward as directed, were delayed by a blizzard on the eighth, but reached One Ton Camp on the morning of the 16th. The dog teams had caught us Up some days earlier and the whole party proceeded in company. A days rest was given the animals at One Ton Camp which we left on the 17th. Having regard to the weight of the loads, the heavy surfaces and limited number of ?M-mals, ?M-mals, I decided to march 15 miles only every night this distance has has been maintained on bright nights and so far as we can forsee, it should be continued. The ponies are going very steadily and keeping In condition remarkably well. The flrBt pony has been shot for expediency but could have travelled trav-elled further. The animals have ten pounds of oats and three pounds of oil cake daily. We are hopeful ot getting the men's food supply to the glacier, according to program, without great difficulty but shall be a day or two later than anticipated. We found the motor party waiting at latitude 80. Two of their number now leave as. The sole cause of the abandonment aban-donment of the motors was the overheating over-heating of the air cooled engines. Decenjber 10, latitude 83 degrees 15 minutes. After the return of the motor party from latitude 81 degrees 15 minutes we .pushed steadily south hopeful for better weather conditions. ward the barrier. About noon the party neared the barrier but found its ice wall unclimbable and the swell churning and breaUlnng heavy floes against it. In this delemma Crean was allowed to attempt to obtain help. He traveled east over the moving; mov-ing; pack to find a break in the Ice wall and eventually hoisted himself to the barrier surface by wedging his ski stick in a crack. More Ponies Lost. On March 4 we ascended hills east of Castle Rock, and on the fifth the party with the two remaining ponies and the dog teams was safely housed at Hut Point. By this incident we lost three of our strongest ponies. This was a severe blow to the expedition, expe-dition, but not enough to wreck its plans if the remaining animals could be preserved. The heavy swell which caused this disaster broke more than ten miles of sea ice, large fragments from the barrier, and two miles of glacier tongue a feature which had remained otherwise unchanged un-changed since discovery, in 1902. The Hut was found almost completely filled fill-ed with hard snow, the windows broken and the door unhinged. With much labor we cleared and repaired it. It then afforded good shelter. Preparing For the Winter. On March 17 Lieutenant Evans led a party to Corner Camp, completing the depot arrangements for the coming com-ing season. The temperature at the barrier had already fallen to minus 40 degrees. Throughout the month ice continually formed over the sea but the strong winds quickly drove it out. After March 25 the ice remained remain-ed fast in the sheltered bays but continued to drive out of the sound. tTno-A lnnd inp fulls nn tho ennthwpcf A second pony was destroyed at latitude lati-tude 82 degrees 10 minutes. A third at latitude 82 degrees 45 minutes and two more near the 83rd parallel. None of these animals were exhausted but were sacrificed on account of lightening light-ening loads and as food for dogs. As we approached the weather grew worse, snow storms were frequent, the sky continually overcast and land very rarely visible. Close to the Pole. January 3, 1912, latitude 87.32, height 9,800 feet. After leaving the upper glacier depot, south of Mount Darwin, I steered southwest tw days. This did not keep us clear of! pressure ridges and crevasses which occurred frequently at first and gave us trouble, but we rose rapidly in altitude. alti-tude. Probably the difficult places were more snowcovered than further eastward. The adopting of this course was mainly felt on the third and fourth days when owing to our altitude alti-tude we got a splendid view of the distribution of the land masses fringing fring-ing the ice sheet and the arm of ice falls. Since leaving the depot our marches have averaged over fifteen statute miles a day. On Christmas day we were close up to the 86th parallel and the prospect of Christmas Christ-mas fare gave us an excellent march seventeen miles but the effect was CAPT. ROBERT F. SCOTT V' - iiy y, s.m.. ii)I3 Jj iiit ii iZUml slopes of . Mount Erebus prevented any possibility of returning to Cape Evans by land, but with the freezing of the bays I decided to make an attempt to reach the station, partly by land and partly by sea ice. With eight companions I started, on April 11, and although caught by a storm on sea ice, we reached Cape Evans early on the 13th. We found the station, which had been left in Simpson's charge, in excellent order, and arrangements ar-rangements for comfort remarkably perfect. On April 17 I returned to Hut Polilt with a fresh sledge party carrying supplies and stores. As it wss impossible im-possible for animals to travel on the roule taken, I left Meares and five others in charge of those at Hut Point and again returned to Cape Evans on April 30. Sea ice continued to drive out of sounds until the first week in May. It was not until May 13, three weeks after the sun had gone that the men and animals left Hut Point and safely returned to the main station. sta-tion. The sound froze solid in May and later in winter packed Ice extended ex-tended to an unprecedented distance northward, despite numerous gales. After the return from the absentees we settled down very comfortably in our winter hut, its arrangements for lighting, heating, cooking and Intrepid British explorer who headed r) expedition In search of the south polo ponies and two dog teams occupied till January 30 in establishing a base camp at the Barrier seven miles east, southeast of Hut Point. On February Sth, we proceeded south, marching by night and resting by day. The weather was exceptionally exception-ally bad but the surface improved. Tho three weakest ponies were sent back, but these unfortunately were caught in another bad blizzard and two succumbed. With the remaining ponies and the dogs we reached latitude lati-tude TO1" degrees on the 16th. when I decided owing to the condition of the weather and the animals to make a depot here and return. We left more thau a ton of stores at this point which we named One Ton Camp and which should be a great help to us this season. We then returned to our Base Camp with dog teams. At Base camp I found every single sin-gle pony well, and visiting Hut Point I received uews of the Terra Nova and Fram. On February 24, with men on skis, and a single pony, I started to take more stores to Corner camp. On the outward journey we passed returning re-turning points going well. Returning not so happy the following day. The surface grew more difficult as we approached the 87th parallel. On New Year's eve, in latitude 86 degrees, de-grees, 56 minutes, we depoted there a unit of provisions and rebuilt our sledges with new short runners, which remarkable piece of work was performed by the seamen of the party under adverse conditions. Although Al-though it cost us nearly a day's march, the change amply repaid us. We have been able to keep up our average and we are now within 150 miles of the pole. Five Going On to the Pole. I am going forward with a party of five men sending three back under Lieutenant Evans with this note. The advance party goes forward with a month's provisions and the prospects of success good, providing the weather holds and no unforseen obstacles arise. It has been very difficult to choose the advance party, as everyone was fit and able to go forward. Those who 'returned are naturally much disappointed. Everyone Every-one has worked his hardest. The weather on the plateau has been good on the whole. The sun has never deserted de-serted us, but the temperatures are low now, about minus 20 degrees, and the wind pretty constant. However, we are excellently equipped for such conditions and the wind undoubtedly ventilation proved eminently satisfactory satisfac-tory Sehind a land ridge on the slBpes of Mount Terror, the party spent three days building a stone hut on which they roofed with canvas from this camp. The men had great difficulty in crossing the huge barrier pressure ridges in the dim noon twilight to reach the rookery. They were successful suc-cessful at a second attempt. They found comparatively few birds at the rookery, but these had begun to lay even at this early date. Fortunately , some eggs at different stages of development de-velopment were secured which should give considerable information concerning con-cerning the embryology of thin interesting inter-esting bird. The same night a violent gale commenced and the ridge proved inadequate shelter from the hurricane hurri-cane gusts which whirled down on the hut. A tent and other carefully secured articles were blown away, and after straining for 14 hours the roof of the hut flew to ribbons. For 30 hours more the travelers were confined con-fined in their frozen sleeping beds half buried beneath snow and rock debris. The state of their equipment now forced them to turn homeward, on the return journey they were held for two days by another storm after which the temperature fell and re mained below minus 60 degrees. The party returned after five days absence j incased in ice and suffering from ! from Corner camp, I was held up by a blizzard on the 27th bu: reached Base camp on the CSth, I found the storm had been phenomenal at this place, raging for three days and causing enormous accumulation of snow drifts. Shifts of wind had baffled all efforts to shelter the ponies with snon j improves the surface so far all arrangements ar-rangements have worked out most I satisfactorily. It is more than prob-Able prob-Able that no further news will be received from us this year as our return re-turn must necessarily be late. ROBERT F. SCOTT. want of sleep but otherwise well. First Antarctic Telephone Line. At the end of the month telephone communication was established with |