August 17, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
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I'll Spend to Night Autolite presents the true story of
five polar explorers and their race against death, a radio
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Speaker 3 (01:47):
I'll spend.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Wednesday, January eighteenth, nineteenthred and twelve Camp sixty nine Temple.
You're minus twenty two degrees am the south pole. We
have arrived yet, but under very different circumstances from those expected.
We've had a horrible day. Elation ran high all morning
since we were nearing our goal and thought to be
the first five men to reach the poles, but our
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hope for dash when Evans sighted a flag and a
fence near the spot. The Norwegians have forestalled us from
our first to get here. In the empty tent under
the name of their leader Raould Amundson were lifted The
five men who were with him. It's a terrible disappointment,
and I'm very sorry for my loyal companions.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
There's no doubt of it now they did find an
easier way up over the barrier. We've thought as much
back its cape armitage.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
It's the rotten shame man, and I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Good Lord Captain Scott. You've done everything you could.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
And there's more to do more for all of us
eight hundred miles. Matter of fact, are you ready to
start back? Evans?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
I can't think of a reason to stay. This ruddy,
miserable place.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Is a fledge ready, oh, a bit frozen in? I
suppose I imagine wilcome to you wrote to start the
faster the better, Captain Bowels, can you get a fight
and start us off? On course?
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Sky is a bit overcast, but I think so, yes,
I think I can.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
We'll go then as quickly as we can. The minute
saved here will mean a minute more of comfort aboard
the ship. January eighteenth, temperature minus twenty sixtym. The moment
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of departure is here. It is impossible to collect our thoughts,
and few of them are voised, but I know the
same are with all of us. Can we pull the
heavy slaves with great distance eight hundred miles of attractless
windswept barrier and drift. Can we find the carefully arrange
supply camp be left on our trail? Can we trust
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down navigation instruments? Can we survive? January twenty first, temperature
minus thirty one four. This morning, while feeding the stage
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from the ice, Evans snatched his hand. I'm afraid the
four chapters int of trouble. His wounds were not closed
in this cold, and we absolutely cannot spare the time
to camp with. Our rations are very low, as well
as our fuel. January twenty eighth, night camp temperature minus
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twenty seven. The miles continue to fall behind us, but
with painful slowness. Our diet and with it our general
condition has improved since finding our health to be supply
camp only forty two miles to the next one, but
but not without omens. Oats is suffering from a very
cold foot, Evan's hands and face on a horrible stage,
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and tonight Wilson is suffering tortures from snow blindness. Barbers
and I are the only ones without troubles at present.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Oh wait, hold on, I've got the rest don't try
to help Evans.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Just hold of the fledge.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I wasn't helping, captain.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
I've got to rest anyway, My good We're don't sit
down Evan, several of peep.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Can't we put him in his sleeping bag and put
him on the sledge.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
No, I won't do that.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
We can pull him.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
I want to do it.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
If it's for good of the rest. I'll stay here.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Or no, have that kind of a order.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
I won't be dragged on by the restaurant.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Then you've got to come along eleven or eight more miles.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Even then we'll be stopping the rest, not thinking.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Of those miles.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
How many more seven miles are Let's cover of theason.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I'll do the best I care.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I'm sure of heaven and everything will be all right. Yes,
all right, we'll be hot food in a few more hours.
Let's move on. February eleventh, temperature minus twenty six point two.
The worst day we've had during the trip, and greatly
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going to our own faults. He started on a wretched
curfle pulling on sledge. The light was horrible, dull by foggy,
made everything look fantastic. As we went on, the light
grew worse, and we found ourselves in pressure. Then came
the fatal decision to steal east. The disturbance grew worse,
and my spirits received a very rude shock the father.
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We plunged ahead the less possible. It seemed that we
could find the way out here. He struggled until nine pm.
We do nothing more a big kem. There's no getting
away from the fact that we are not pulling strong.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
He was very ponished sledge John Wright.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Wilson. I think let me see, yes, I think they are. Oh, Evans,
what were you saying?
Speaker 4 (07:30):
I was I saying something?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
How does it go on?
Speaker 4 (07:34):
I thought I was asleep. Perhaps you were know what
you were saying, Evans. You were naming the schools that
donated sledges for the expedition. I thought I was asleep,
must have been dreaming about home. I like it better
there than I do here. I mean I like dreaming
about it.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
I like it there as much rest as you can.
Even the Montona is start's how all right?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
It's better, Captain. It bothers a bit in the morning,
but then it gets better. How do you get along?
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Said well, captain, because I know everything is going to
be all right.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Are you just cheering us up for?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Do you really think so? Of course I think so.
You know as well as I what spend it panning
we've had. If things going percise as it should, there's
a line of supply camp light back to the ship.
All we've got to do is follow it. February seventeenth,
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A very terrible day. Although we got out of a turmoil.
Evan's looked a little better after a good sleep and
the tired he was all right. He started in his
face on the faces, but half an hour later he
had to leave the sledge and follow behind. At the
first west stop, he came up very slowly. He stayed
with us for a while, then dropped out again. He
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tried to pull him on the sledge, but he had
not the strength, and he fell behind me. At lunch camp,
he saw him coming farrest turn, and when he looked
again he had fallen. Evans, is he alive? Lap first?
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Tell you REI can you move? Come on? Heaven, let
me go.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Don't want so? Don't get the other bowers.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Bring the swede right Evans. Evans, you can't lie here.
You got to move. Evans, come on, get up, you'll
have to do it. I can't lift you.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Over there, over there by the tree, go fetch mh.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Whenber he got him into the tent, he was quite comatose,
and he died quietly at Prive thirty PM. The terrible
seem to lose companion that way. His passing is a
frightfully personal thing to each of us. As a usual,
our doubts and fears are not voiced. But I don't
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think that one of us does not wonder how many
of the remaining four ten survive.
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Speaker 4 (12:14):
I'll spend.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
February twenty second night camp temperature minus twenty two point nine.
The little dark were in Flora, wrought in critical time
going home, and the lateness of the seas may make
it rarely serious. We never won the March of eight
and a half miles of better difficulties than we did
to day. We've come now a bit more than half
the distance, which needs almost four hundred distressing miles of
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dragging still before us. On the bright side, we found
another supply camp in ten full days of provisions in
his less than seventy miles to the next camp. February
twenty fifth night camp, temper term minus twenty three point two.
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A little dispondent again, a very terrible oasis. Put is
almost completely gone, and he is helpless. Means are pulling
up to Wilsome, almost totally blind, now bower than me,
and we do not do well at all. The truth
is there's not enough energy in our ration. Without tremendous
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intakes of energy in this cold, we suffer physically mentally too.
There's a little communication between us and the tenth at night.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Now, Yes, what is it, Scot? What I thought.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
I had something? I thought you said something, didn't your.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
No bowas I got to talk to you ballas.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Of course, eyebowers. I'm jelled me worried. I didn't think
it was you called. I heard my wife.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Under these conditions.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
I won't tell you. It started last night. I was
with her bowels and there wasn't a dream. I was
lying awake, looking up at the peak of the tent,
and suddenly I was with her in our library at home.
I must have been dreams. No I wasn't. I could
feel everything and smell everything, the perfume she was wearing,
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the warmth and the fire. I was warm, Bowers. I
was warm even after I came back here. No dream
can accomplish that. I went home, I held with my
arms and we went up to see our tongue. It
was night and he was asleep, And then we went
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back to the library and qualifire and it was warm.
Speaker 7 (15:05):
I'm sorry that he's asleep, Bob.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I know for every time, And oh, what tales I'll
have to tell him of courageous men serving that country.
I'll make him proud to be an Englishman.
Speaker 7 (15:16):
Oh, I'm sure he will be dying, bub All.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
We must guard him against indolence, must make him a
strenuous man, interesting in natural history, better than games.
Speaker 7 (15:27):
He'll be a good man.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
And you, Kate, if I could tell you the millions
of thoughts I've had of you.
Speaker 7 (15:33):
I was with you. I think I worried, so I
knew you must.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Have been suffering there. What's some there's bound to be
when a feature is as great as ours. The years
of planning, eight hundred miles we marched to the pole,
eight hundred back. But what wealth we brought to the scientists,
and what honor we brought to England.
Speaker 7 (15:52):
You're home dying, and that's more important than science, and
honor your home, and you won't ever go away again.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
No, I'll serve my duty. I think I shall collect
and arrange my notes, so I shall write a book
and describe the bottom of the world and living there.
Speaker 7 (16:09):
But never go back.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
The drift snow like finest flower, flickering up under one's
clothing and singing the sandblask but never goes back, the
great cloudy columns of snow drift, advancing from the south
and heralding the storm. Never No, I like it here.
I'm warm, warm, I'm warm.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
It was a dream, scot, But Lord, it's nothing to
worry about.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Was not a dream. All of your senses don't coordinate
in a dream. You don't smell and touch and feel
where I've told you it is the first sign of
a breakdown.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
I wanted you to know.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Of course it isn't.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
You're in splendid shape, thinks abouts I owe you a
great deal of nonsense. At least Iarie is the privilege
of getting into sweep good night bounds, good night mark,
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first lunch, icole, last night minimum minus forty one point five.
But our fortunes have changed, at least the future of
aviser Ours excellent navigating has kept us precisely on course,
and on it we found an unexpected supply tent containing
rations and the notes addressed to me. The men back
at the cape had taken upon themselves to change plans,
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for which we are happy. The next camp we expected
on the supplies has been enlarged, demanded. We have been
met there with dog sedges. At that point our dragging
days are finished, and along the twenty four half miles
away March Second Night Camp, all the elation of yesterday
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has been crashed. Misfortune rarely comes singly. This day we
have suffered three distinct blows. First, through some overside. Our
fuel always supplies less than half what we thought it was. Second,
Titles disclosed his feet. They show very bad. Indeed they
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will never be saved. The last year, the weather has
turned on us. Blizzard conditions are extreme. They're in a
very tight pace. Indeed, but none of us is defundant
or at least none shows March tenth since Sally going
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downhill midday. Mine see is it's still with oats. I'm
able to go on. Still camped at noon, have coupled
only eleven miles and eight days past. Captain, Yes, those.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
It's it's quite difficult.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
To say this without Sunday heroics.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
But I'm going to die and I know it.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
You want those. You mustn't talk like that.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
It's no good, Captain. I know I am, and I'm
not afraid stop that. I know what I'm saying, and
the quicker it happens, the better. I'm not going to
hold the rest of you back. I know how I
felt about poor Evans. He was holding us back and
I knew he was going to die, and I was
angry at him for keeping on as long as he did.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
What kind of talk is that out?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
That's the truth, and I don't care. And he was
holding us back and I knew there was no chance
of him. I wanted him to die.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
And I don't know what the rest of you were thinking.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
But that's what I was. I know I'm holding you back,
and I won't have that. I want you to leave me.
Will not be give you Oats. Please captain, I'm not afraid.
I'd like to go. I'm tired and it hurts, and
I'd like to go to sleep and not wake up.
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I have no family to leave the rest of you.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
We won't leave you, Oats.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
You will know that I want it that way. I'll
get in my sleeping bag and I'm just sleep. I'm
not afraid I want to.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
You can't do that, Oats. Even if we agree with you,
we couldn't leave you. Please Captain.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
You know I'm right, All of you know.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Please please.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Last sixteenth or seventeen, last track of dates. But I
think the last is correct. Fortier's oaths is gone. Should
this journal be found, I want these facts with the hordes.
This was his. Then he woke in the morning yesterday
it was blowing a blizzard. He said, I'm just going outside,
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John Belonge. He went out into the blizzard and we
have not seen him sensive March eighteen nightcap. They are
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fourteen miles away from the stage camp. That ill fortune presses.
My wife could have gone two days ago, asked tour possessor.
The best piece. Now one is down. We have they
are still confident in getting through, but I don't know.
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March went the first got within eleven miles of dog
Slips Camp. Yesterday the bard forced us to lay up.
They cannot move against it. We do not dare to
leave the tenth, and would surely die if we're death.
Speaker 7 (22:33):
Here. I am bob over here.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Oh, I doesn't see you so.
Speaker 7 (22:36):
Nice in the sun, But I sit up for a
bit too nice. Nothing like this is your precious South Pole.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
No, nothing like this down there. Even when the sun
is high, it's always weak and diffuse, and because of
the reflections on the ice on every side, there never
is a definite shadow, or with a number of shadows
of any man or object. I think. No, I hate it.
Five men marchs of the pole, and they say they've
conquered it, but they haven't. It will conquer them.
Speaker 7 (23:07):
You'll never go back, will you.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
No?
Speaker 7 (23:09):
I didn't want you to go. Remember, I was afraid
you wouldn't come back. Do you remember when I said that?
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Yes? I remember, and I laughed at you didn't. I
I was such a cow. I laughed and told you
that I would conquer it just for you, that I
would name a glacier for you, And I asked.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
You, how will you mean that when a glaci is
named after her?
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Well, I didn't name a glacier for you, but I
thought it would. Kate. I've thought him, dreamed of me
so often. It's important that you know that it's important
that you know that I think of you constantly. You
and our sun. He must be active, mister stronger, and
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you must protect him, and he must protect you. God O, Kate,
I love you. If they starting well, yes, yes, yes,
for Bowers Wilson is dead, uh Wilson.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
Hill mastering, and I since the twenty first bars and
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I surviving Wilson has had a continuous gale.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
And blizzard from west southwest and southwest. We had fuel
to make two cups of tea apiece and their food
for two days. On the twentieth as the day we've
been ready to start for the dogstage camp eleven miles away.
But outside the door of the tent it remains a
scene of welling drift, and I do not see we
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can hope any better things now. We shall stick it
out to the end. That we're getting weak, of course,
and the end cannot be far seems a pity, but
I do not think I can write much more this
rough journal, and our dead bodies must tell the story
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in dying we asked.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
The following year, an expedition formed by Captain Scott's comrades
at the main depot at Cape Armitage set out and
found his body, along with that of Bowers and Wilson's
search was carried on for Oates and Evans, that they
were never found. A great cairn was built at the
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site of Scott's final camp, a trivial monument of the.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
Courage of five men, and especially to the complete devotion
to duty of Robert Falcon. Scott, until his dying breath,
continued to keep a record of the fatal journey.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
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Suspence is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis, with music
composed by Lucian Morwick and conducted by Loud Bluskin. The
soloist tonight was Eloise. The Diary of Captain Scott was
adapted for Suspence by Gil down. In Tonight's story, June
Whitley was heard as Kate Poter, Owen as Bowers, Ben
Wright as Oaths, Joseph Kearns as Evans, and Charles Davis
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as Wilson. Herbert Marshall may be heard each week on
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Wednesday, January eighteenth, nineteenthred and twelve Camp sixty nine Temple.
You're minus twenty two degrees am the south pole. We
have arrived yet, but under very different circumstances from those expected.
We've had a horrible day. Elation ran high all morning
since we were nearing our goal and thought to be
the first five men to reach the poles, but our
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hope for dash when Evans sighted a flag and a
fence near the spot. The Norwegians have forestalled us from
our first to get here. In the empty tent under
the name of their leader Raould Amundson were lifted The
five men who were with him. It's a terrible disappointment,
and I'm very sorry for my loyal companions.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
There's no doubt of it now they did find an
easier way up over the barrier. We've thought as much
back its cape armitage.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
It's the rotten shame man, and I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Good Lord Captain Scott. You've done everything you could.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
And there's more to do more for all of us
eight hundred miles. Matter of fact, are you ready to
start back? Evans?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
I can't think of a reason to stay. This ruddy,
miserable place.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Is a fledge ready, oh, a bit frozen in? I
suppose I imagine wilcome to you wrote to start the
faster the better, Captain Bowels, can you get a fight
and start us off? On course?
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Sky is a bit overcast, but I think so, yes,
I think I can.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
We'll go then as quickly as we can. The minute
saved here will mean a minute more of comfort aboard
the ship. January eighteenth, temperature minus twenty sixtym. The moment
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of departure is here. It is impossible to collect our thoughts,
and few of them are voised, but I know the
same are with all of us. Can we pull the
heavy slaves with great distance eight hundred miles of attractless
windswept barrier and drift. Can we find the carefully arrange
supply camp be left on our trail? Can we trust
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down navigation instruments? Can we survive? January twenty first, temperature
minus thirty one four. This morning, while feeding the stage
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from the ice, Evans snatched his hand. I'm afraid the
four chapters int of trouble. His wounds were not closed
in this cold, and we absolutely cannot spare the time
to camp with. Our rations are very low, as well
as our fuel. January twenty eighth, night camp temperature minus
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twenty seven. The miles continue to fall behind us, but
with painful slowness. Our diet and with it our general
condition has improved since finding our health to be supply
camp only forty two miles to the next one, but
but not without omens. Oats is suffering from a very
cold foot, Evan's hands and face on a horrible stage,
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and tonight Wilson is suffering tortures from snow blindness. Barbers
and I are the only ones without troubles at present.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Oh wait, hold on, I've got the rest don't try
to help Evans.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Just hold of the fledge.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I wasn't helping, captain.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
I've got to rest anyway, My good We're don't sit
down Evan, several of peep.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Can't we put him in his sleeping bag and put
him on the sledge.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
No, I won't do that.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
We can pull him.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
I want to do it.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
If it's for good of the rest. I'll stay here.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Or no, have that kind of a order.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
I won't be dragged on by the restaurant.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Then you've got to come along eleven or eight more miles.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Even then we'll be stopping the rest, not thinking.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Of those miles.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
How many more seven miles are Let's cover of theason.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I'll do the best I care.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I'm sure of heaven and everything will be all right. Yes,
all right, we'll be hot food in a few more hours.
Let's move on. February eleventh, temperature minus twenty six point two.
The worst day we've had during the trip, and greatly
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going to our own faults. He started on a wretched
curfle pulling on sledge. The light was horrible, dull by foggy,
made everything look fantastic. As we went on, the light
grew worse, and we found ourselves in pressure. Then came
the fatal decision to steal east. The disturbance grew worse,
and my spirits received a very rude shock the father.
(06:55):
We plunged ahead the less possible. It seemed that we
could find the way out here. He struggled until nine pm.
We do nothing more a big kem. There's no getting
away from the fact that we are not pulling strong.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
He was very ponished sledge John Wright.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Wilson. I think let me see, yes, I think they are. Oh, Evans,
what were you saying?
Speaker 4 (07:30):
I was I saying something?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
How does it go on?
Speaker 4 (07:34):
I thought I was asleep. Perhaps you were know what
you were saying, Evans. You were naming the schools that
donated sledges for the expedition. I thought I was asleep,
must have been dreaming about home. I like it better
there than I do here. I mean I like dreaming
about it.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
I like it there as much rest as you can.
Even the Montona is start's how all right?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
It's better, Captain. It bothers a bit in the morning,
but then it gets better. How do you get along?
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Said well, captain, because I know everything is going to
be all right.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Are you just cheering us up for?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Do you really think so? Of course I think so.
You know as well as I what spend it panning
we've had. If things going percise as it should, there's
a line of supply camp light back to the ship.
All we've got to do is follow it. February seventeenth,
(08:33):
A very terrible day. Although we got out of a turmoil.
Evan's looked a little better after a good sleep and
the tired he was all right. He started in his
face on the faces, but half an hour later he
had to leave the sledge and follow behind. At the
first west stop, he came up very slowly. He stayed
with us for a while, then dropped out again. He
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tried to pull him on the sledge, but he had
not the strength, and he fell behind me. At lunch camp,
he saw him coming farrest turn, and when he looked
again he had fallen. Evans, is he alive? Lap first?
(09:15):
Tell you REI can you move? Come on? Heaven, let
me go.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Don't want so? Don't get the other bowers.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Bring the swede right Evans. Evans, you can't lie here.
You got to move. Evans, come on, get up, you'll
have to do it. I can't lift you.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Over there, over there by the tree, go fetch mh.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Whenber he got him into the tent, he was quite comatose,
and he died quietly at Prive thirty PM. The terrible
seem to lose companion that way. His passing is a
frightfully personal thing to each of us. As a usual,
our doubts and fears are not voiced. But I don't
(10:17):
think that one of us does not wonder how many
of the remaining four ten survive.
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Speaker 4 (12:14):
I'll spend.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
February twenty second night camp temperature minus twenty two point nine.
The little dark were in Flora, wrought in critical time
going home, and the lateness of the seas may make
it rarely serious. We never won the March of eight
and a half miles of better difficulties than we did
to day. We've come now a bit more than half
the distance, which needs almost four hundred distressing miles of
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dragging still before us. On the bright side, we found
another supply camp in ten full days of provisions in
his less than seventy miles to the next camp. February
twenty fifth night camp, temper term minus twenty three point two.
(13:15):
A little dispondent again, a very terrible oasis. Put is
almost completely gone, and he is helpless. Means are pulling
up to Wilsome, almost totally blind, now bower than me,
and we do not do well at all. The truth
is there's not enough energy in our ration. Without tremendous
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intakes of energy in this cold, we suffer physically mentally too.
There's a little communication between us and the tenth at night.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Now, Yes, what is it, Scot? What I thought.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
I had something? I thought you said something, didn't your.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
No bowas I got to talk to you ballas.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Of course, eyebowers. I'm jelled me worried. I didn't think
it was you called. I heard my wife.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Under these conditions.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
I won't tell you. It started last night. I was
with her bowels and there wasn't a dream. I was
lying awake, looking up at the peak of the tent,
and suddenly I was with her in our library at home.
I must have been dreams. No I wasn't. I could
feel everything and smell everything, the perfume she was wearing,
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the warmth and the fire. I was warm, Bowers. I
was warm even after I came back here. No dream
can accomplish that. I went home, I held with my
arms and we went up to see our tongue. It
was night and he was asleep, And then we went
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back to the library and qualifire and it was warm.
Speaker 7 (15:05):
I'm sorry that he's asleep, Bob.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I know for every time, And oh, what tales I'll
have to tell him of courageous men serving that country.
I'll make him proud to be an Englishman.
Speaker 7 (15:16):
Oh, I'm sure he will be dying, bub All.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
We must guard him against indolence, must make him a
strenuous man, interesting in natural history, better than games.
Speaker 7 (15:27):
He'll be a good man.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
And you, Kate, if I could tell you the millions
of thoughts I've had of you.
Speaker 7 (15:33):
I was with you. I think I worried, so I
knew you must.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Have been suffering there. What's some there's bound to be
when a feature is as great as ours. The years
of planning, eight hundred miles we marched to the pole,
eight hundred back. But what wealth we brought to the scientists,
and what honor we brought to England.
Speaker 7 (15:52):
You're home dying, and that's more important than science, and
honor your home, and you won't ever go away again.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
No, I'll serve my duty. I think I shall collect
and arrange my notes, so I shall write a book
and describe the bottom of the world and living there.
Speaker 7 (16:09):
But never go back.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
The drift snow like finest flower, flickering up under one's
clothing and singing the sandblask but never goes back, the
great cloudy columns of snow drift, advancing from the south
and heralding the storm. Never No, I like it here.
I'm warm, warm, I'm warm.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
It was a dream, scot, But Lord, it's nothing to
worry about.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Was not a dream. All of your senses don't coordinate
in a dream. You don't smell and touch and feel
where I've told you it is the first sign of
a breakdown.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
I wanted you to know.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Of course it isn't.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
You're in splendid shape, thinks abouts I owe you a
great deal of nonsense. At least Iarie is the privilege
of getting into sweep good night bounds, good night mark,
(17:25):
first lunch, icole, last night minimum minus forty one point five.
But our fortunes have changed, at least the future of
aviser Ours excellent navigating has kept us precisely on course,
and on it we found an unexpected supply tent containing
rations and the notes addressed to me. The men back
at the cape had taken upon themselves to change plans,
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for which we are happy. The next camp we expected
on the supplies has been enlarged, demanded. We have been
met there with dog sedges. At that point our dragging
days are finished, and along the twenty four half miles
away March Second Night Camp, all the elation of yesterday
(18:12):
has been crashed. Misfortune rarely comes singly. This day we
have suffered three distinct blows. First, through some overside. Our
fuel always supplies less than half what we thought it was. Second,
Titles disclosed his feet. They show very bad. Indeed they
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will never be saved. The last year, the weather has
turned on us. Blizzard conditions are extreme. They're in a
very tight pace. Indeed, but none of us is defundant
or at least none shows March tenth since Sally going
(18:56):
downhill midday. Mine see is it's still with oats. I'm
able to go on. Still camped at noon, have coupled
only eleven miles and eight days past. Captain, Yes, those.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
It's it's quite difficult.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
To say this without Sunday heroics.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
But I'm going to die and I know it.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
You want those. You mustn't talk like that.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
It's no good, Captain. I know I am, and I'm
not afraid stop that. I know what I'm saying, and
the quicker it happens, the better. I'm not going to
hold the rest of you back. I know how I
felt about poor Evans. He was holding us back and
I knew he was going to die, and I was
angry at him for keeping on as long as he did.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
What kind of talk is that out?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
That's the truth, and I don't care. And he was
holding us back and I knew there was no chance
of him. I wanted him to die.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
And I don't know what the rest of you were thinking.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
But that's what I was. I know I'm holding you back,
and I won't have that. I want you to leave me.
Will not be give you Oats. Please captain, I'm not afraid.
I'd like to go. I'm tired and it hurts, and
I'd like to go to sleep and not wake up.
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I have no family to leave the rest of you.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
We won't leave you, Oats.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
You will know that I want it that way. I'll
get in my sleeping bag and I'm just sleep. I'm
not afraid I want to.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
You can't do that, Oats. Even if we agree with you,
we couldn't leave you. Please Captain.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
You know I'm right, All of you know.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Please please.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Last sixteenth or seventeen, last track of dates. But I
think the last is correct. Fortier's oaths is gone. Should
this journal be found, I want these facts with the hordes.
This was his. Then he woke in the morning yesterday
it was blowing a blizzard. He said, I'm just going outside,
(21:11):
John Belonge. He went out into the blizzard and we
have not seen him sensive March eighteen nightcap. They are
(21:47):
fourteen miles away from the stage camp. That ill fortune presses.
My wife could have gone two days ago, asked tour possessor.
The best piece. Now one is down. We have they
are still confident in getting through, but I don't know.
(22:10):
March went the first got within eleven miles of dog
Slips Camp. Yesterday the bard forced us to lay up.
They cannot move against it. We do not dare to
leave the tenth, and would surely die if we're death.
Speaker 7 (22:33):
Here. I am bob over here.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Oh, I doesn't see you so.
Speaker 7 (22:36):
Nice in the sun, But I sit up for a
bit too nice. Nothing like this is your precious South Pole.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
No, nothing like this down there. Even when the sun
is high, it's always weak and diffuse, and because of
the reflections on the ice on every side, there never
is a definite shadow, or with a number of shadows
of any man or object. I think. No, I hate it.
Five men marchs of the pole, and they say they've
conquered it, but they haven't. It will conquer them.
Speaker 7 (23:07):
You'll never go back, will you.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
No?
Speaker 7 (23:09):
I didn't want you to go. Remember, I was afraid
you wouldn't come back. Do you remember when I said that?
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Yes? I remember, and I laughed at you didn't. I
I was such a cow. I laughed and told you
that I would conquer it just for you, that I
would name a glacier for you, And I asked.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
You, how will you mean that when a glaci is
named after her?
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Well, I didn't name a glacier for you, but I
thought it would. Kate. I've thought him, dreamed of me
so often. It's important that you know that it's important
that you know that I think of you constantly. You
and our sun. He must be active, mister stronger, and
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you must protect him, and he must protect you. God O, Kate,
I love you. If they starting well, yes, yes, yes,
for Bowers Wilson is dead, uh Wilson.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
Hill mastering, and I since the twenty first bars and
(24:30):
I surviving Wilson has had a continuous gale.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
And blizzard from west southwest and southwest. We had fuel
to make two cups of tea apiece and their food
for two days. On the twentieth as the day we've
been ready to start for the dogstage camp eleven miles away.
But outside the door of the tent it remains a
scene of welling drift, and I do not see we
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can hope any better things now. We shall stick it
out to the end. That we're getting weak, of course,
and the end cannot be far seems a pity, but
I do not think I can write much more this
rough journal, and our dead bodies must tell the story
(25:22):
in dying we asked.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
The following year, an expedition formed by Captain Scott's comrades
at the main depot at Cape Armitage set out and
found his body, along with that of Bowers and Wilson's
search was carried on for Oates and Evans, that they
were never found. A great cairn was built at the
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site of Scott's final camp, a trivial monument of the.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
Courage of five men, and especially to the complete devotion
to duty of Robert Falcon. Scott, until his dying breath,
continued to keep a record of the fatal journey.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
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Whitley was heard as Kate Poter, Owen as Bowers, Ben
Wright as Oaths, Joseph Kearns as Evans, and Charles Davis
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