QUEST IN GALES.
RIDING GIGANTIC WAVES. LONDON, October 23. Mr Mason, the photographer, and Scout Mooney, of the Quest, havo returned to London. Their health has greatly improved. Graphic stories were told by Mason and Mooney, in an interview at Southampton, of their experiences on the Quest in the Bay of Biscay. They emphasised the Quest’s splendid seaworthiness in riding the most gigantic waves, and also the doggedness of the crew under the severest physical disabilities. Sir Ernest Shackleton for five clays did not leave the bridge. For two days no food could be cooked, and the crew lived on sandwiches and biscuits. Even worse weather was encountered between Lisbon and Madeira. Shackleton and three others were immune from seasickness, but the fourteen others, including seasoned sailors* were Mason lost two stone in weight before thfe Quest readied IVladoira, where Shackleton gave a letter to both, point, ing out that they "would endanger their lives by going any further, and highly praising their devotion to duty. Owing to the delay at Lisbon the Quest’s visit to St Paul’s Rocks, on the equator, may be abandoned, in order to enable her to reach the Antarctic under seasonable condition.^.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16570, 1 November 1921, Page 7
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