SHACKLETON AND THE KAISER.
Tho late Sir Ernest Shacldeton used to toll a story against himself which I have not scon recalled, illustrating, as he used to say, one of the few occasions upon which he was "knocked flat" (writes the London correspondent of the Dunedin "Star"). After*one of his expeditions he was received in audience by the ex-Emperor of Germany, _ then in the zenith o*f his power. The Kaiser graciously started a conversation on Polar exploration, chiefly with the object, as it appeared to Sir Ernest, of demonstrating his own knowledge on the subject, but it had not gone far before the great Antarctic explorer realised that tho monarch's information had been laboriously gleaned from accounts of Arctic .j'.iiinit'yinp?. The crisis came when the Emperor disvussed Polar bears, when Sir Ernest bluntly to.'d him that there were none in" the Antarctic. Drawing himself up ,to the extreme height of his dignity, the K airier haughtily asked: ''"Why nut:-'' Sir Eruest's reply is not recorded.
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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17414, 27 March 1922, Page 4
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