SIR ERNEST SHACKLETON’S LAST TRIP.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 317, 1 February 1922, Page 2

SIR ERNEST SHACKLETON’S LAST TRIP.

One of the messages given by Sir Ernest Sltitckleloii io a pressman prior lo sailing from England in the Quest was prophetic: “My mind is so full of detail, 1 can’t take, a long view at the moment or express properly till I feel about this expedition. When the prow cleaves the Southern Setts 1 shall gel hack my vision. .Inst now I have to think about still pork and tin plates. If we do all we hope to do this lime 1 am singing my swan song. This is to be my last trip.” He laughed and added: “That is what 1 say now. This is my life, and Iho call of far places gets into the blood. To-day, its we go out, as y OU see, (ho Quest is loaded up with scientific instruments, but there comes a time even to-day with modern scientific men, when there is nothing between you and God hut a piece of speedy decision. Nothing is worth anything unless there is hardship and trouble in it. In spile of all our gadgets, we come in time to the fundamental things in the character of Man. Those lines I have had engraved below “ho bridge are three verses from Kipling s ML They are there for the young men, and lhoy’ll do for the old ones, 100. There may ,>onie a lime when the seas break over ns, and we shall wipe the salt water out of our exes and road them. T hat s why I put ihein there. lam proud of the Quest. She is a wonderful ship.”