QUEST'S RETURN

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 124, 29 May 1922, Page 7

QUEST'S RETURN

CAPTAIN WORSLEY INJURED

SHACKLETON'S HONOURED NAME

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(PUBLISHED IN THE HUES.) j (Received May 29, 9 a.m.)

LONDON, 27th May

Captain Hnssey has arrived at Southampton. He. said that "after Siv fcrnest Shackleton's funeral, I had a strange, lonely time waiting for the return of the Quest,. In the davk of the early, morning of 6th April, Hansen burst into my room, and said, ' The Quest is coming in.' ' The crew were all bearded and seubby, but cheerful." There were minor casualties.during the cruise. Captain. Worsley, the sailing master, had several ribs broken by being crushed by a lifeboat which ■ was swinging in a heavy sea. The airman, Can1,- had a bad abscess on his face, and went into hospital on Sou,tji Georgia. " Shackleton's death was painless and peaceful. There was a, calm- mljesty about J;he funeral, which, ,'wus held on a. placid \ftarnoon following days of snow and tempest. Many humble, whalers who had sailed forty miles to pay the last honours were moved to». tears at the graveside. His name.is one to conjure with in the Antarctic, where to the end of time the rough Norwegian" whalers in the long dark nights will tell the epic story of his boat journey from Elephant Island: tp South Georgia."