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Show SCOTT DID REACH THE POLE The latest news In regard to Captain Cap-tain Scott's South Pole expedition has been brought by Herbert G. Pouting, Pout-ing, the first member of the expedition to return to London. Ponting is a widely known traveler. He accompanied accom-panied Captain Scott's party as a photographer. pho-tographer. He says he accompanied Captain Scott for some miles into the great barrier the night the explorer started on his march toward the pole when he left him. Mr. Ponting took cinematograph pictures of the party as they disappeared in the distance in the vast desert of ice. Captain Scott, he says, was then about seven hundred hun-dred miles from the pole. Ponting says there is little doubt that Scott reached the pole about January Jan-uary 15, because when Lieutenant Evans left him January 4 he was only 145 miles from the pole with ample food supplies and all other necessaries. neces-saries. He was then traveling about I fifteen miles a day and should have If I reached the pole ten days later. Ponting continues: "Captain Scott was due back where we were waiting for him with the Terra' Nova March 15, or earlier, but the sea froze up rapidly and March 15 we believed it unwise to remain any longer. No news can now be received of Captain Scott until the Terra Nova returns from Its next trip south in March, 1913." |