A TRYING TIME

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11222, 30 May 1922, Page 6

A TRYING TIME

QUEST RETURNS HOME NORWEGIAN WHALERS HONOUR SHAOKLETOX’S NAME. CAPTAIN WORSLEY INJURED. By Tolerraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright Published in "Tbs Time*." LONDON, May 27. Certain Hussey has arrived at South-at’’.-ton. 1U» said that after Sir Ernest Hint kl-etou’s funeral, I had a strange, !.n ely time waiting for tilt' return of : Qu. :i. In the dark of the early i-.Mi'.-g af April Gth. Hansen burst i : > :■:.<• loom, a net said, 'The Quest is < ■ a in.' The crew wore all luvtrd- • d -cruel,y, but cheerful.” There v. e- ■ minor casualties during the r::s.j. (aptain Worsley, the sailing r..i :cr. hid several ribs broken by bein.- -"rushed by a lifeboat which was a • iufting in a heavy sea. The airman, ( re, hul a bad abc-ess on his face, and wort into hospital on South Georgia. “Shacklcton’s death was painless and peaceful. There was a calm majesty about the funeral, which was held on a placid afternoon following civs of snow and tempest. Many humble whalers who had sailed forty miles to pay the last honours were moved to tears at the graveside. His name is one to conjure with in the Antarctic, where to the end of time the rough Norwegian whalers in the long dark nights will tell the epic storv of his boat journey from Elephant Island to South Georgia.”