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Show HORRORS OF THE ANTARCTIC OCEAN New York, Tan. 13 -"After Dr. -Mertz died, I debated with mvself for two days whether to eat him or burv ; hnn. I finally burled him." "When I took off my hoots, the soles or my feet came off with them There was nothing to do but bandage the pieces back on and proceed In agony toward my base." "For thirty-nine days I lived on the meat of a single dog and during eight of those days another man had been living on the same dog. For thirtv-one thirtv-one (ays 1 was alone on the Ice. "i had no soles on my feet and my hair all fell out But finally I got back to my base " These are the high spots of a narrative narra-tive told today by Sir Douglas Maw-son, Maw-son, who arrived on the Cunarder Or-dunn Or-dunn an purposes to lecture before the American Geographic society on his explorations in the Antartic Sir Douglas and two companions, Lieutenant I! H innes of tho British navy and Dr. X. Mertz, Swiss ski ehampion, set out from their base in Amelje iand In 1912 to make observations observa-tions of the geographical and arch-aelocieal arch-aelocieal features of the south polar continent Lieutenant Ninnes fell to death through a crevasse and Dr Mertz s'licnimbed to a perforation of the Intestines. Sir Douglas savs li I does not know how he himself came through alive, but admits that he gives thanks even.- day that be buried Dr. Mertz Instead of eating him. Grewsome Debate. Tie died January f, 1913," said Sir Douglas in describing this part of his a rl ventures "I was awfully short of food and about 100 miles away from our base, and I debated for two days on tho matter of eating Mertz But I finally decided that if I ever did get hack to civilization it would leave a bad taste in my mouth forever. So I hurled him in a hole In the ice and pushed on " The expedition discovered, according accord-ing to Sir Douglas, the place where storms are spawned. He says Amelle Karid Is the breeding place of the South American hurricane. The wind blows fifty miles an hour on an average aver-age and he and his companions registered regis-tered It as high ag 220 miles an hour rtn Ihn TTinl r. n 1 1 fr n TVirt m n '1 1 1 toni. perature is about 5 degrees above zero, but the mercury sinks past 17 deggrees below zero. On the trip out the party discovered that by wireless they could notify the Australian coast at least forty-eight hours before the arrival there of a hurricane Other Important discoveries discover-ies were made, and the out trip was one succession of triumphs with no untoward incidents. But when the litle party turned to retrace Its steps misfortunes came thick and fast. After Sir Douglas reached bis bas on the coast, he found the ship they had come in. tho Aurora, had just left for the Falkland and would not return re-turn for months A search party of six men had been left, so the sole survivor sur-vivor of tho expedition was given good care and nursed back to health. "The last day of my trip I had cooked myself a fine meal of dog meat," said Dr Mawson. "When I got back to real food T was ravenous, and the best thing we ha1 was penguin pen-guin eggs. In the time we waited for the Aurora to return the seven of us ate 7000 of these boiled, fried, poached and scrambled And as we had plenty of butter we made lots of omelettes ome-lettes This was the best way of all to cook the eggs." |
