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because Castel was made of the right stuff, he volunteered for the 

 advance work. 



I set much store by Ole Andreasen, a brother of Captain Matt 

 Andreasen. I did not really know exactly the sort of man Ole 

 was going to be, but he had at least the admirable quality of cheer- 

 fulness under all circumstances and an absolute inability to see 

 how anybody could be lonesome anywhere, no matter how isolated 

 or remote from various things that ordinary people enjoy. This 

 I knew from my experience with him on my second expedition 

 (spring, 1912). I suppose that those who philosophize on such 

 things would say he had "resources within himself" which are lack- 

 ing in most of us. 



Captain Bernard, who was going in our support party, was an 

 excellent dog driver and one of the best traveling companions I 

 have ever had in spite of his fifty-six years. It was largely thanks 

 to him that our sledges were in as good condition as they were, 

 for among other accomplishments he was an excellent sled maker. 



The last man to be mentioned of those I eventually selected 

 for the start out on the ice was Frits Johansen, marine biologist. 

 In a sense he was the most important because, in addition to his 

 other work, he was expected to make whatever oceanographical or 

 biological observations he could. At one time on the support jour- 

 ney he got so interested that, contrary to his feelings when he was 

 on land, he wanted to continue with us to the limit of our journey. 

 But both his own judgment and mine was that the expedition 

 could not afford to have him do this, for he had a great deal of 

 biological paraphernalia ashore which nobody but he understood 

 and of which he alone could make full use — as he eventually did, for 

 his scientific results were perhaps the most voluminous of the expe- 

 dition. 



