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kins, Captain Brooke Greville, Mr. Fieldhouse, Mr. 
E. Hudson, Dr. Mill, Dr. Bowdler Sharpe, and Mr. 
F. Newnes. 
"After the toasts of “The Queen and ‘King 
Oscar, from whose subjects a large proportion of 
the crew are engaged, 
*Dr. Mill proposed success to the expedition, 
“SOUTHERN CROSS” IN ST. KATHARINE'S DOCK. 
which was about to undertake a work of international 
importance. It was a reproach to human enterprise 
that there were parts of this ridiculously small earth 
that civilised man had never reached, and never 
attempted to reach, and this reproach, in so far as 
it referred to the Antarctic regions, the munificence 
of Sir George Newnes, combined with the courage 
of Mr. Borchgrevink, would, he hoped, remove. 
