"EXHAUSTED AND STARVING."
NEW YORK, Wednesday. Captain Amundsen, in an interview, said that Scott and his companions must have been exhausted and starving. Probably scurvy was rife when the blizzard came. It was a mistake not to have taken dogs. The men's weakened condition added to their sufferings during the long sledge journeys over the ice, unprotected from the mercilessly sweeping winds. Captain Amundsen added: "I cannot read Scott's last message without emotion. I never met him personally, but he "was a brave man. Sir Ernest Shackloton turned homeward just in time to save his life."
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11591, 13 February 1913, Page 5
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