IN THE FROZEN SOUTH

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17143, 27 December 1929, Page 5

IN THE FROZEN SOUTH

ANTARCTIC CHRISTMAS A MISERABLE DAY (Copyright 1929 by the New York Times Co., and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. An rights for publication reserved throughout the world.) (By tireless to the New York Times.) (By Kussell Owen,) BAY OF WHALES, Dec. 25. This is Christmas and the best thing we can think of is that a month from now tho ships should be here and, in another month, if all is well, we should bo where there are unfamiliar trees and grass, trolley cars and noises. We will probably be run over by automobiles on our first day ashore. It is a miserable summer polar day, with soft snow underfoot and a drab sky above and 'such a monotone of white and grey that, unless there is a little dirt around, it is impossible to see the surface. There is no horizon, just a bowl of gruel in which objects stand out as if resting on the air. ' Thirty of us have not seen land or anything roscmbling it since landing on the Barrier a year ago to-day.