VOYAGE OF THE QUEST.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 June 1923, Page 9

VOYAGE OF THE QUEST.

DISCONTENT AMONG CREW. AFTER SHACKLETON’S DEATH. London, May 27. Mr. Frank Wild’s books 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 and criticised the 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 that .’a continuance of the criticisms would he drasticallv treated, “I said that I would welcome any suggestions, and consider any reasonable complaints, apart from selfish and individual interests. I was glad to note an immediate improvement.” Mr. Wild, relates an incident when the 'stove refused to bum. 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 'lp’v as possible. Finally he ate it, Jwrniinv himself inside also. He deirrbea Shackleton as the most unconquerable man he had ever known.