We are going to starve her & do our best to send her back” īarne’s sledging party, consisting of six men (Smythe, Plumley, Williamson, Crean, Weller), did not have a supporting party which was the normal way to send notes back to the ship. The snow here is not quite so deep, but it is as much as ever we can do to start the sledges on ski, we cannot even start the first sledge, I hope Vinka will turn up all right. If we drop anything, it will be ½’ N of the nearest of the two points at the N end of White Id & will be marked with a large flag. I don’t know when we are likely to get there as our speed is only between ¼ & ½ a mile an hour. “Dear Royds, I am very much afraid we shall have to drop not only the pelsk bag, but probably a week of our own provisions off the point of White Island. Remarkably one of the notes in the collection, from Lieutenant Michael Barne to Lieutenant Charles Royds back at Winter Quarters on board the ship Discovery was delivered by Vinka the pet dog of Albert Borlase Armitage, second in command of the expedition, across miles of frozen featureless tracts with the note attached to her collar by a boot lace. The National Antarctic Expedition 1901-04, led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott was one of the first major scientific and natural history expeditions to Antarctica which saw the first ascent of the polar plateau in the Western Mountains and the discovery of the first Emperor penguin egg.
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