Introductory. 12 
In selecting my staff and crew of the vessel, I 
purposely selected men who were able to collect 
reliable data, judging this more important than having 
a staff of specialists. In my opinion it is neither 
desirable nor possible to work out the raw material 
collected by a pioneer expedition under such conditions 
in which we lived and worked; and I think it 
is one of the difficulties of selecting men for an 
Antarctic expedition, to get professional, capable, 
and practical scientific men, who, however, will not 
also attempt minute analyses of their observations 
and collections. It is altogether undesirable that 
well- collected 
material should 
be meddled with 
bDcTtore it is 
delivered into 
the hands of 
thoroughly ex- 
perienced speci- 
mists, With 
tais in view 
I selected the 
following off 
pers for my 
БОШ and for 
my vessel :— 
Captain 
Bernhard Jensen CAPTAIN JENSEN. 
with master- 
mariners certificate, born 1853, Norwegian by 
birth ; has had twenty years’ experience in ice 
navigation; has once before passed the Antarctic 
