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Sir Ernest Shackleton. South: the story
of Shackleton’s last ... The snow was cleared out and
extra stores were placed in it. From reports I have received
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When
I look back at those days I have no doubt that Providence guided us, not
only across those snowfields, but across the storm–white sea that
separated Elephant Island from our landing–place on South Georgia.
I know that during that long, and
racking march of thirty–six hours over the unnamed mountains and glaciers
of South Georgia it seemed to me often that we were four, not three. I
said nothing to my companions on the point, but afterwards Worsley said to
me, “Boss, I had a curious feeling on the march that there was another
person with us.” Crean confessed to the same idea. One feels “the dearth
of human words, the roughness of mortal speech” in trying to describe
things intangible, but a record of our journeys would be incomplete
without a reference to a subject very near to our
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