ABSENCE OF SICKNESS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13921, 27 March 1909, Page 5

ABSENCE OF SICKNESS.

1 Mr. Macintosh looks back with pleas- ' ureable feelings to his stay in Antarc- < .tica, though he confesses that he is glad to get back once'more to the comforts of civilisation. "When you are i down there," he says/ "you know that nothing will induce you to go back, but from a distance- there is a fascintttion about Antarctica.?' The.picking ; up .of the parties was*one of the most arduous parts of the work of the ship's; \ company. - Some of Professor David's specimens! had to be left behind. Though efforts were made t& get them from the place where he had cached them, the attempt was frustrated bf the inexorable pack ice. < The silence o* . the day in Antarctica has been commented on before. It is a thing one cannot get used to apparently. Mr. Macintosh commented on th© absence of sickness, ihe practical immunity of the* parties from serious illness being one of the features of the expedition, considering that from the point of view of adventure it wa[s not approached by previous expeditions. Everyone seemed to suffer from frost-bite, and quite a number of the members of the expedition still bear marks of the attentions of Jack Frost.' Mr. Macintosh, who, it will be remembered, met with an unfortunate accideflt on the first trip of the Nimrod" to the ice, is looking the picture of health, and hag all the distinguishing marks and appendages in the shape of frost-bite and hirsute adornment of the Antarctic exploring party.