QUEST’S VOYAGE
DISCONTENT AMONG CREW. AFTER SHACKLETON S DEAIH. LONDON, May 27. Mr Frank Wild’s book on Sir Ernest Shackleton’s last voyage discloses dissatisfaction and grumbling aboard the steamer Quest. “The men who sat at my table,” he says, “enjoyed my implicit confidence, and should have been most loyal supporters. They discussed anil criticised (he expedition and our affairs with the members of the other mess. This required prompt measures. I therefore assembled each mess separately and went straight to the point, saying (hat a continuance of the criticism would be drastically treated. “I said that I would welcome any suggestions and consider any reasonable complaints, apart from selfish and individual interests. 1 was glad to note an immediate improvement.’' Mr Wild relates an incident when the stove refused to burn. They gathered at dinner, cold and miserable, but were overjoyed to find a big dish of hot potatoes. Wild placed the biggest one under his jersey, and moved the potato about frequently to warm as much of his body I as possible. Fnally he ate it, warming himself inside also. He describes Shackleton as the most unconquerable man he had ever known.
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Southland Times, Issue 18965, 13 June 1923, Page 11
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193QUEST’S VOYAGE Southland Times, Issue 18965, 13 June 1923, Page 11
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