THE ABSENCE OF DOGS.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13648, 13 February 1913, Page 5

THE ABSENCE OF DOGS.

ADDITIONAL BURDEN ON THE PARTY.'

(Received Feb. 12, 10.50 p.m.) New York, Feb. 12. Captain Amundsen, interviewed, said Captain Scott and his companions must have been exhausted and starving/and probably scurvy was rife when the blizzard came. It was a mistake not to have taken dogs. Men in their weakened condition would have added sufferings in -dragging'the-sledges across the ic© unprotected and exposed to merciless, sweeping winds. They could not, he added, read Captain Scott's last message without emotion. He. never met him personally, but ho was a brave man. Sir Emsst Shackleton turned homeward just in time to save his life. Captain Amundsen denied that the object of his own exploration was tha North Polo. It was purely scientific, but if he- were close to the Polo jo might go there.