THE NARRATIVE CONTINUED
DEATH OF MET2S. MAWSON'S TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE. (Received, Last Night, 10.55 o'clock.) LONDON, February 27. Continuing his narrative, Dr Mawson says:—"Two dogs gave out daily through want of nutriment. We were a" hundred miles from the hut on' New Year's Day. Dense snow was falling daily. Metz had become very weak,- but continued very cheerful. I did not have a wish for a better companion. On the sixth of January iMetz wap unable to walk, I dragged the sledge, with much toil, for only 2% miles, with, the help of a ,sail. Metz died at midnight on the . seventh. My own condition afforded little hope; "but I decided to push on. 1 -did not seed a reminder that in the following month snow would be experienced daily. I several times fell into crevasses to the length of the sledge pole, and was scarcely able to crawl out. My skin and. nails I came off, owing to the intense cold. The discovery of food* in a cache finally enabled me to reach the hut."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 28 February 1914, Page 5
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