BIG MEN AND STRAIN.

Mataura Ensign, 23 April 1913, Page 5

BIG MEN AND STRAIN.

Referring to the physical collapse of ; \ Seaman Evans, the first of the Polar < heroes to fail, a West African explorer, ! | writing to the 'Daily Express.' sayr: "A year ago, when in the of r Sierra Leone, and pushing up unfre- < quented rivers and forests there, I . noticed the same thing. My white con:- ] panion was much bigger than I am. 1 but he collapsed from the heat while I < remained immune. He was not uneducated, but he had fewer interests thaa i I, and in the almost unending forests and interminable sameness of the ftx;<! and the glaring sun on the river hi? saw little else than monotony after the, first few days, which I never felt."