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INTRODUCTION 



is doubly grateful. He is grateful for the details of the daily 

 round as it passed in the explorers' hut ; he is grateful for 

 the sense that new testimony only bears out former report. 



Nor are these personal impressions all, though they 

 extend over a longer period than that covered in the " Last 

 Expedition." Mr. Griffith Taylor also gathers up what has 

 in large measure appeared elsewhere, the story of his own 

 explorations and much of his general scientific results in 

 geology and physiography, so that his Antarctic experiences 

 stand together as a union in thought and action of all that 

 is typified by the old name and the new, Cambridge and 

 Melbourne, each his Alma Mater. 



The book makes its appearance in the midst of a great 

 war, when books are too often regarded as a first luxury to be 

 cut off. Nevertheless I hope that many will be able to find 

 in its pages some refreshment of mind, some relaxation from 

 the long strain, some strengthening of faith in the latent 

 spirit of the Greater England which has sent its sons from the 

 four quarters of the world to stand beside the Old Country 

 in the hour of destiny. 



LEONARD HUXLEY. 



February, 191 6. 



