SAILING SOUTH

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 142, 13 December 1933, Page 9

SAILING SOUTH

LINCOLN ELLSWORTH

VOYAGE OF WYATT EARP

ALL'S WELL ABOARD

Special to Press Association.—By Radio. Copyright. (Beceived December 13, 9 a.m.) THE -AVYATT EABP, at Sea, ' , December 12. Through terrific winds and lumpy seas the Wyatt Earp, bearing Mr. Lincoln Ellsworth and sixteen members of the expedition, has, since leaving Dunedin, beaten her , way amidst whitecapped waves almost 1000 miles towards the Antarctic pack ice. Driven spray lashes the desk, and.with incessant rain smothers the ship in dripping wetness. Slanting rain and soft, low clouds limit the vision to a mile or so, and the hazards of navigation are enhanced by the fact that only once in tho last six days has Captain Holth ,been able to find by solar observation the ship's .position. ' Of such are the terrors of sub-polar ocean travel —to a. landsman —but to all aboard trained in and familiar with high latitude seas it is all in the day's work. The careful selection of the ship and crew and the adequate preparations made to meet such conditions ensuro that everything goes according to plan. All aboard are cheerful and sense no hardship. Had the decks been indiscriminately, and , loosely crammed, the deck load would have been overboard some time ago. But in spite of the snappy rolling of the \ ship and the tumbling waters, everything inboard goes smoothly. The temperature is now only 5 degrees Centigrade above freezing, which sounds much colder than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Yet so well fed and hearty are the men of the crew that most of them have not yet donned their heavy underwear and none have broken out their woollen gloves or mittens. However, the.conditions we now experience are not to be treated lightly. It ; is to be expected that in spite of Mr. Ellsworth's ample preparations, discomforts and hardships will occur before he and Balchen have completed their hazardous long flight of discovery.