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ried away for twenty- four hours on an ice floe from 

 New Harbor towards the open sea and only just saved 

 themselves at a momentary contact with fixed ice. 

 Macintosh and a sailor had a wild journey with letters 

 from the ship off Cape Bird to Cape Royds. The sea 

 ice broke up into small floes and after waiting some 

 days on the rocky coast they made their way five thou- 

 sand feet up the slopes of Ross Island. By some 

 miracle they escaped the fields of crevasses and reached 

 the 1907 hut without food or gear on January 12th. 



Scott, iQio-ipi^. — The most tragic of Antarctic 

 expeditions was that led by Captain Robert Falcon 

 Scott to the southern continent in 19 10. It had two 

 objects. Firstly, the leader wished to surpass Shackle- 

 ton's journey and reach the South Pole. Secondly, 

 there were many scientists on the expedition whose 

 special aim was to make detailed surveys in as many 

 coastal regions as might be found possible. All these 

 objects were attained, but the tragic loss of the five 

 members of the pole party involved the deaths of Scott, 

 the leader, of Wilson, the director of science, of Oates, 

 the oflicer in charge of transport, of Bowers, who was 

 in charge of all stores, and of Evans, the chief petty 

 officer. 



The expedition left Lyttelton in New Zealand on 

 November 26th, 19 10. They experienced a furious 

 gale which nearly sank the ''Terra Nova" in the ''Furi- 

 ous Fifties" near Campbell Island.^ The ship was held 

 back by the dense pack for some three weeks, an un- 



2 This incident is described later on page 108. 



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