fedupness

Updated: May 4, 2025

There are only four of the original eleven on board Larkman, Ninnis, Mauger, and I. Much has happened since Friday, September 18, 1914, and I can recall the scene as we passed down the Thames with submarines and cruisers, in commission and bent on business, crossing our course. I can also remember the regret at leaving it all and the consequent 'fedupness. "September 21.

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton - South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition