CHAPTER VIII 
ENDERBY BROTHERS AND THE ANTARCTIC 
“We bring no store of ingots, 
Of spice or precious stones, 
But that we have we gathered 
With sweat and aching bones: 
In flame beneath the tropics 
In frost upon the floe. 
And jeopardy of every wind 
That does between them go.” 
— Rudyard Kipling. 
IV/TESSRS. ENDERBY, whose ships had visited the 
-^-■“Southern seas since 1785 and had already added 
something to geographical knowledge, began to take a 
deeper interest in Antarctic exploration from the time of 
the foundation of the Royal Geographical Society. Mr. 
Charles Enderby became an original Fellow of that So- 
ciety in 1830 and remained actively interested in its work 
for forty-seven years. There is, perhaps, no other instance 
of a private mercantile firm undertaking so extensive a 
series of voyages of discovery without much encourage- 
ment in the way of pecuniary returns. It was in the palmy 
days of the deep-sea whalers, when hundreds of ships 
sailed for a cruise of a couple of years “ round the world 
and back again ” for a cargo of whale oil in tropical or 
temperate waters, as the chance of success suggested, and 
many shipmasters must have lighted on discoveries now 
lost to the world and perhaps never treated as more than 
sailors’ yarns. Messrs. Enderby differed from other 
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