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[BY BIR ERNEST, SHACKELSTON IN THE "DALLY CHRONICLE"]
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3RD, 1912.
Amundsen's further cable to. The Chronicle gives more details of human interest than could be gathered from his first long official message. He says that no traces whatever wore seen that Scott had reached the Pole before, but, wisely says that it is quite possible, that he may have been there, and that bad weather might have destroyed his memorial; which would most likely be a snow mound:
I note that he thinks that calm weather is the prevalent condition at the Pole. This is quite different to what we experi- enced and concluded to be the general case during our Southern march. During the whole of that march on the plateau we Buffered greatly from strong head winds. What a blizzard means in a latitude such.
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The numbness that seizes one's limbs before the mighty forces of nature, let' loose as though they resented more man. approaching and daring their solitudes; the feeling as if the struggle were useless, such a feeling that is only dombated by the thought that far off across leagues of icy wastes and storme seas the people in our home country were watching and hoping for our success.
Amundsen fortunately escaped such
escaped troubles, and continued his march to his long-sought for goal without experiencing these never-to-be-forgotten hardships.
Leaving one's personal memories and reverting to the possibility that Scott may have reached the Pole-approximately at the same time as Amundsen, there is a chance that some slight undulation,
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Amundsen points out that his remark able speed was by marching six hours, then spending two hours tending to dogs and feeding, then six hours' rest, and then another march. It is evident that he mast have been driving the dogs, and that the men were not engaged in hauling the sledges themselves, and in this he is fortunate.
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Amundsen states that his greatest diffi- culties were the heights encountered, und that be reached an elevation of 18,750 feet. There may be some telegraphic error here, in the cable, for to reach this enormous Altitude he must have gone right over the mountains, and also found the highest mountain in the South Polar regions. In his original cable Amundsen states that 10,750 feet was the highest he had reached, and this is a much more likely figure.
He found that the Pole itself is at an altitude of 10,800ft. When we stopped at 97 miles from the Pole our altitude was 10,050ft., and the plateau was slowly rising at the rate of about 800ft. for every 100 miles. So it appears that the observa- tions of both expeditions seem to coincide.
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I presume here that Amundsen has corrected his altitudes with reference to his base camp at the Bay of Whales, because we had to reduce our altitude by hypsometer measurement by over a thou- sand feet, and if corrected our approxi
cal atatement Amundsen makes is that the Then it froze into a sheet of ice inside, mate altitude by hypsometric measure-King Edward Land party reports seeing and it became very painful to pull the ment was over. 11,000 feet.
a bird of a new species also. Scientific bleuse off in camp." men will eagerly await a full statement I note that Amundsen refers to dental as to what the bird was at all like.
operations. The only experience we had of these was when Adams, one of the Southern party, suffered badly from tooth- ache. Marshall, our surgeon and carto- grapher, decided to operate. Unfor tunately we had only a left-handed forceps with us. I waited outside the tent while the operation was in progress. I saw a great deal of bulging of the tent and heard a lot of language not fit for publication. Marshall came out excited but unsuccess ful.
Working at such low temperatures st high altitudes, one well-knows from exparience, is very trying. Amundsen was fortunate in being able to take suffi- cient provisions throughout his journey, so that he and his comrades were not I note that Beriously inconvenienced. they had to resort eventually to eating dog, and it certainly requires an Antarctic appetito to consider dog a "delicious" food.
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In 841dég. S. he observed two skua gulls. The instinct of these birds to go in nearly 350 miles from the sea in search of food is remarkable. The most interesting biologi-
Amandsen pays a well-deserved tribute to his comrades, and we hope soon to hear the names of these men, and we would particularly like to hear in which journey Nansen's old lieutenant to the North, Johansen, took part.
Amundson wisely took a beard-cutting machine, a precaution we neglected; hence we suffered agonies from our frozen bearda sticking to our clothes.
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He promised Adams that he would por our own journey Bouth and taking this
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