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Suddenly the clerk turned to inform me that some 
very distant official desired to congratulate me on my 
safe return, and wished very much to know whether I 
had found any people “down there." 
The next morning, while enjoying my first civilised 
bath, somebody knocked furiously at the bath-room 
door and handed 
me a newspaper, 
in which it was 
announced that my 
wife had arrived 
that very night 
at Adelaide from 
Europe. The cable 
announcing my 
arrival at the Bluff 
had crossed the 
one announcing her 
arrival in Adelaide! 
On April 3rd the 
Hon. Mr. Ward, 
M.L.A., of New 
Zealand, who met 
me with the greatest 
courtesy and did 
all in his power to assist me, informed me that he 
had communicated with His Excellency Mr. Seddon, 
the Premier of New Zealand, and that he had 
obtained for me permission from the Government 
to land the sledge dogs on Native Island. 
. On April 4th, after instructing Captain Jensen to 
proceed to Hobart at once after landing the dogs, 1 
left in the Mokora for Hobart. 
FARTHEST SOUTH EVER REACHED 
BY МАМ, 
