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For this reason the Fram carried a whole library of Antarctic literature, containing everything that has been written by the long succession of explorers in these regions, from James Cook and James Clark Ross to Captain Scott and Sir Ernest Shackleton. And, indeed, good use was made of this library.
The new-comer was tall; a beard plastered with mud, as if to disguise its colour, straggled over his burned and wasted cheeks, but here and there a wisp of yellow hair flecked with grey curled from his hood, a pair of blue eyes shone with excitement from hollow sockets, and he wore the violet-and-white robes of a Moorish soldier. It was his dress at which Major Shackleton looked.
He saluted the Major, and Wyley noticed that with his uniform he seemed to have drawn on something of a soldierly confidence. "There's your supper, lad," said Shackleton, pointing to a few poor herrings and a crust of bread which an orderly had spread upon the table. "It is scanty." "I like it the better," said Knightley with a laugh; "for so I am assured I am at home, in Tangier.
Owing to ill-health Ernest H. Shackleton was obliged to return from the Antarctic in 1903, and his place was taken by George F. A. Mulock, who was a sub-lieutenant in the Navy when he joined. Bower is a wonder of course. He is 29. When past the forties it is encouraging to remember that Peary was 52!
For we had some hard graft marching up the steep incline called by Shackleton the Southern Gateway. We had made a depot of three ten-foot sledges in good condition to be used for the homeward journey over the Barrier by each returning unit realising that the descent of the Glacier would knock our sledges about and most likely break them up to some extent.
Shackleton reported that the door had been forced by the wind, but that he had made an entrance by the window and found shelter inside other members of his party used it for shelter. Meares and I were able to clamber over the snow to some extent and to examine the neat pile of cases in the middle, but they will take much digging out.
It is probable that Burke, always reserved, had little in common with his young associates. His own musings, with occasional attempts at writing poetry, long walks through the country, and frequent letters to and from Richard Shackleton, employed him when not at his books.
After December 17 our marches worked up from 13 to 23 miles a day. Shackleton bestowed the name of Queen Alexandra Range on the huge mountains to the westward of the Beardmore. The most conspicuous is the "Cloudmaker," which he gives as 9.971 I like the 1 foot when heights are so hard to determine hereabouts!
Tessin and Major Shackleton looked suddenly towards Wyley in recognition of the accuracy of his guess. Scrope simply wiped the perspiration from his forehead and waited. "But how does that forgetfulness, shall we say? persuade you to the fear that you played the coward?" asked Wyley. "Well," replied Knightley, and his voice sank to a whisper, "I played the coward afterwards at Mequinez.
Day had learnt much under Shackleton in these parts, and by some of us he was nicknamed "Handy Andy." Meares was now appointed "Governor of Hut Point." As a matter of fact he and his dogs were better off here than at Cape Evans, because the dogs could use the big sheltered verandas already mentioned, whereas they had no such shelter at Cape Evans.
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