GREAT DEEDS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXI, Issue 15449, 29 October 1910, Page 8

GREAT DEEDS.

Tub smiling confidence of the young men who form the staff of Captain Scott's expedition is a good augury for the ultimate success of their great undertaking. They realise, of course, that they will bo called upon to climb to a high level of achievement. Tho original Discovery, expedition secured a fairly extensive knowledge of the geography of Victoria Land and of the general conditions of tho neighbouring areas of plateau and snow-plain, and its scientists studied the Antarctic fauna and geology, as well as the more abstruse scientific subjects. Sir Ernest Shackleton's small party extended the work enormously in nearly every direction. The geographical results secured attracted world-wide attention, but in addition many absolutely new discoveries wero made in the fields of biology, geology and meteorology. The ascent of Mount Erebus was a feat that previously had been deemed impossible, and the journey up the Beardmore Glacier and into the interior cleared away tho mystery that had surrounded the character of the Antarctic continent. The new expedition will try to take up the work whero its predecessors left off. Its members will attempt to cover tile last stage of the journey to the Pole, to determine the southern and eastern limits of the Great Ice Barrior and to extend tho various scientific studies on Ross Island and'in A'ictoria I/and. Much will be expected of them because so much has been achieved before, but no one who has mot tho men selected by Captain Scott to be his companions in tho enterprise will doubt that courage, determination and ability will all be applied to the purposes in view. The head of the expedition himself evidently is a man who inspires confidenco and loyalty in tho hearts of his followers,, and from that quality of leadership splendid dee<ls are born.