Though Commander Richard E. Byrd and those of the 10,000 applicants that he chose to take with him stress the scientific aims of their epedition, and though they will undoubtedly devote their time and their energies while in the Antarctic to the accumulation of geographical, meteorological, and other data, perhaps even they would not have been so eager to explore the ice continent had they not felt the call of adventure. While men answer that call, while they are willing to leave behind them friends, cities, warmth, all the comforts that are so necessary in our own world, for the sake of doing a new, though hard thing, there will be little reason to moan of a degenerate race.—“ The Sun,” Christcliurch. ■. ■
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 70, 15 December 1928, Page 21
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