432 SIEGE OF THE SOUTH POLE 
Wiencke Island in Gerlache Strait and found no news at 
a place where Dr. Charcot had promised to leave in- 
formation as to his whereabouts. However the good ship 
Frangais, in spite of severe experiences in the ice and of 
damage which might easily have been fatal, was destined 
to prove another example of the good fortune which has 
always sms led on Antarctic exploration and, extricating 
herself, she entered Puerto Madrin in the Argentine 
Republic, all well, on March 4th, 1905. 
Thus ends the brilliant opening of the twentieth cen- 
tury on the edge of Terra Incognita. 
