x WORST JOURNEY IN THE WORLD 
brand to those who did things and said nothing about 
them. But that they say nothing is too often due to the 
fact that they have nothing to say, or are too idle or too 
busy to learn how to say it. Every one who has been 
through such an extraordinary experience has much to say, 
and ought to say it if he has any faculty that way. There 
is after the event a good deal of criticism, of stock-taking, 
of checking of supplies and distances and so forth that 
cannot really be done without first-hand experience. Out 
there we knew what was happening to us too well; but 
we did not and could not measure its full significance. 
When I was asked to write a book by the Antarctic Com- 
mittee I discovered that, without knowing it, I had in- 
tended to write one ever since I had realized my own ex- 
periences. Once started, I enjoyed the process. My own 
writing is my own despair, but it is better than it was, and 
this is directly due to Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Shaw. At an 
advanced age I am delighted to acknowledge that my 
education has at last begun. 
APSLEY CHERRY-GARRARD 
Lamer, WHEATHAMPSTEAD, 
1923. 
