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POLAR EXPLORTAION is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.
Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on earth has a worse time than an Emperor penguin.
Now, with the noise and racket of London all around them, a statue of Scott looks across to one of Franklin and his men of the Erebus and Terror, and surely they have some thoughts in common.
Meares used to sing to them what he called ‘God save’, and declared that it would always send them headlong into the water. He sang flat: perhaps that was why.
these Manchurian ponies eat the first thing that comes in their way, whether it be a bit of sugar or a bit of Erebus.
He rivals our politicians in that he has little real intellect.
Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman.
Generally speaking, I don’t see how we could have done differently, but I don’t want to see it done again; I don’t want it to be necessary to do it again.
I want to see this country tackle the job, and send enough men to do one thing at a time. They do it in Canada: why not in England too?
Both Debenham and Dickason suffered from mountain sickness, however, and they were the two smokers!
He is the last of the great geographical explorers: it is useless to try and light a fire when everything has been burned; and he is probably the last old-fashioned polar explorer, for, as I believe, the future of such exploration is in the air, but not yet. And he was strong: we never realized until we found him lying there dead how strong, mentally and physically, that man was.
