IN THE ANTARCTIC.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 102, 30 March 1929, Page 9

IN THE ANTARCTIC.

LONG WINTER NIGHT. BYRD EXPEDITION PREPARES. (By Russell Owen, copyright 1928 by the New York Times Company and the St. Louis Post Dispatch; all rights for publication reserved throughout the world. Wireless to the New York Times.) BAY OF WHALES, March 28. The grey twilight that comes before the long winter night is settling over the Aantarctic. The sun rises only a short distance above the horizon and gives but little heat. Most of the outside work is done. There will be shelter for everyone, and rooms where we may work or read and pass the days of darkness in comfort. A holiday has been declared so that tired muscles may be rested and energy renewed for the last days of hard work. For three months these men have worked as they would never have worked under normal conditions—hauling bulky material and building it has been a Herculean task. The aeroplane Stripes is buried for the winter in a house of snow blocks, and • the Floyd Bennett will be .tucked away on the next quiet day. The former has made her last flight, and the ’plane now rests as safely as if in a hangar. Yesterday the last of the Barrier cache was brought in. This was material taken ashore while the Eleanor Bolling lay alongside the Barrier and hauled toward the camp when weather permitted. The last drums of gasoline, and the last bags of coal were brought in yesterday, after they had been excavated from tons of snow. Everything about the camp has been collected and placed in one pile. The weather now is less fickle. The days are clear and cold, with beautifully-tinted sunsets. There is a brilliant elongated moon of unfamiliar countenance.