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"Very right very right that's speaking like a man now," said the stout yeoman; "and, if sae should be that this be sae, if ye'll just gar your servant jow out the great bell in the tower, there's me, and my twa brothers, and little Davie of the Stenhouse, will be wi' you, wi' a' the power we can make, in the snapping of a flint."
I'll cut you down as you stand." "As you will," replied the old man steadily, "but fight you I will not. My life is in your hands. Take it. I am not afraid to die." Stenhouse drew his cutlass slowly, his one eye shining with a deadly hatred.
Stenhouse had the wireless aerial rigged during the afternoon, and at 5 p.m. was informed that the watering of the boiler was complete. The wind freshened to a moderate southerly gale, with thick drift, in the night, and this gale continued during the following day, the 9th.
Stenhouse carried on, and in the early morning of April 2 the 'Aurora' picked up the tug and was taken in tow. She reached Port Chalmers the following morning, and was welcomed with the warm hospitality that New Zealand has always shown towards Antarctic explorers. When I reached New Zealand at the beginning of December 1916, I found that the arrangements for the relief were complete.
Then, crossing the stream, they struck a native path which led to the shore. "There she is," said Ford. The ship lay about a mile from the shore. Stenhouse looked at her earnestly, and then abruptly told his comrades his plans, which were daring but simple. He would await the landing of the boat bringing the dead men ashore for burial, and take them prisoners.
Navigation under such conditions, without steam and without a rudder, was exceedingly difficult, but Stenhouse wished if possible to save his small remaining stock of coal until he cleared the pack, so that a quick run might be made to McMurdo Sound. The jury-rudder could not be rigged in the pack.
At 8.30 a.m. on the 13th Stenhouse set the foresail and foretopmast staysail, and the 'Aurora' moved northward slowly, being brought up occasionally by large floes.
Our party have the privilege.... I got a letter here from Stenhouse giving a summary of his doings since we left him. The ship's party also have not had a rosy time." Mackintosh learned here that Spencer-Smith, Jack, and Gaze, who had turned back on February 10, had reached Hut Point without difficulty. The third party, headed by Cope, had also been out on the Barrier but had not done much.
After journeying to the head of the Platte, and south through the Parks, he went east by the Arkansas, and came again in 1845 to cross the Green a little farther south on his way to California. * For an account of this unfortunate affair see The Rocky Mountain Saints, chapter xliii., by T. B. H. Stenhouse. I knew Lee.
Then we can endeavour to push through the pack and make for New Zealand, coal and return to the Barrier eastward of Cape Crozier. This could be done, I think, in the early spring, September. We must get back to aid the depot-laying next season." A violent blizzard raged on May 10 and 11. "I never remember such wind-force," said Stenhouse. "It was difficult to get along the deck."
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