TO THE SOUTH POLE 
CAPTAIN SCOTT S 
OWN STORY 
TOLD FROM MS JOURNALS 
Photographs by HERBERT G. PONTING, FJR.G.S*, Camera Artist 
to the Expedition* 
This and the articles which are to follow are related from the journals of Captain 
Scott, and give the first connected story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913. 
The story has been told from the journals by Mr. Leonard Huxley, well known as 
the biographer of his celebrated father, and carefully read and revised by Commander 
Evans, R.N. With few exceptions, all the photographs, which have been selected 
from many hundreds, are here published for the first time. 
HE grandest Polar journey 
on record.” So Sir Clements 
Markham, the greatest living 
authority on Polar explora- 
tion, designates Scott’s last 
expedition, with its great 
example of heroic fortitude 
in the face of overwhelming disaster. The 
most striking incidents of this expedition 
are related in these articles, which form the 
first detailed and illustrated account to be 
given to the world prior to the publication of 
the full story in book form this autumn. 
The Objects of the Expedition. 
The expedition was no mere dash to the 
Pole to snatch priority from rival explorers, 
though the hope of this laurel-leaf in the 
crown of adventure was an added spur to 
natural ambition. The whole was organized 
on such a scale and with such a wide range 
of talent that it should reap a rich harvest 
of scientific results, whether the Southern 
party attained its goal or not. Much had 
been done before, but more remained to do 
— to determine the nature of the Western 
Mountains and their geological history, the 
questions connected with the volcanic areas 
and the past and present Ice Age ; to gather 
completest records of heat and cold, of air 
pressure and currents, of atmospheric elec- 
tricity and magnetism, the formation and 
movements of ice, in this region especially, 
which seemed to be the very birthplace of 
tempests and ice-floes. Limited though the 
range of life appears in these latitudes, there 
was much novel and interesting work for the 
Vol. xlvi.— 1. Copyright, 1913, by “ Everybody’s Magazine,” in the United States of America. 
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