THE HEART OF THE ANTARCTIC 



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A MEMBER OE THE EXPEDITION TAKING HIS BATH 



tion, as the arrival of pups brought the 

 number up to twenty-two during the 

 course of the work in the south. 



THE SOUTH POLAR PARTY 



Our party on leaving England con- 

 sisted of : 



E. H. Shackleton, commander. 



Lieut. J. B. Adams, R. N. R., meteor- 

 ologist. 



Sir Philip Brocklehurst, Bart., assist- 

 ant geologist and in charge of current 

 observations. 



Bernard Day, electrician and motor ex- 

 pert. 



Ernest Joyce, in charge of general 

 stores, dogs, sledges, and zoological col- 

 lections. 



Dr. A. F. Mackay, surgeon. 



Dr. Eric Marshall, surgeon, cartogra- 

 pher. 



G. E. Marston, artist. 



James Murray, biologist. 



Raymond Priestley, geologist. 



William Roberts, cook. 



Frank Wild, in charge of provisions. 



Besides myself, Wild and Joyce only 

 had had previous polar work, having 

 been members of the Discovery expedition. 



After the expedition had reached New 

 Zealand and the generous assistance of 

 the Australian and New Zealand govern- 

 ments had relieved me from some finan- 

 cial anxiety, I was able to add to the 

 staff Douglas Mawson, lecturer of min- 

 eralogy and petrology at the Adelaide 

 University, as physicist, and Bertram 

 Armytage as a member of the expedi- 

 tion for general work ; Prof. Edgeworth 

 David, F. R. S., of Sydney University, 

 as geologist and scientist ; Leo Collon, a 

 young Australian, and George Buckley, 

 of New Zealand. 



Our party found the hut which the 

 Discovery party had abandoned at Cape 

 Royds four years previously practically 

 clear of snow, and the structure quite 

 intact. 



There was a small amount of ice inside 

 on the walls, evidently the result of a 

 summer thaw, but even after five years' 

 desertion the building was in excellent 



