IN THE ICE PACK

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 22, 28 January 1929, Page 11

IN THE ICE PACK

THE ELEANOR BOLLING

BUMPING A WAY THK'OUGH

(Received 2Sth January, 3 p.m.) VANCOUVEE, 27 th January. (By J. P. Mason, aboard the Eleanor Boiling—Special to "New York

Times.")

With a beautiful sky on a clear, crisp evening, ice in evory direction, tho ship is pushing ahead very slowly as we near tho southern, edge 4f the Antarctic icepack. Two seals have been playing alongside the ship for the last halfhour. As we movo ahead they dive under the ice cake and emerge on tho other side. Several of the crow are trying to tako their pictures, for there's still sufficient light in the early evening, but the seals are too quick for them. Captain Brown and Johnson, the ice-pilot, scan the horizon for open ice-leads, and then give orders to the wheelman, who takes us zig-zagging and bumping through the pack. Five tons of whalemeat for dog-feed at tho Barrier, which we took from the whaler C. A. Larsen, hangs in great chunks in the rigging, and the odour permeates the entire Antarctic as far as we know it." :

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