CASSELL AND COMPANY, LTD
London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne
1923

First Published, September 1923
Reprinted, October 1923
“ November 1923

Printed in Great Britain.

To
JOHN QUILLER ROWETT

CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
1.Hope Realized[1]
2. London’s Good-bye[6]
3.The Voyage Begins[18]
4.Lisbon to Madeira[33]
5.Experiences Afloat[44]
6.On the Way to Rio[55]
7.Christmas in Southern Seas[71]
8.We Run into Ice[93]
9.The Great Blow Falls[102]
10.Frank Wild Takes Command[106]
11.All Ice Where Eye Could See[117]
12.The Great Struggle Begins[131]
13.Going Doggedly On[145]
14.We Make for Elephant Island[160]
15.A Rough Time with Ice and Wind[177]
16.South Georgia Again[186]
17.A Spell on Tristan da Cunha[198]
18.Among the Islands[213]
19.Asail for Home[224]
Index[241]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Raising the Union Jack given by King George V to the Quest (Scout Marr is hoisting the left Signal Halyard)[Frontispiece]
FACING PAGE
Sir Ernest Shackleton and Mr. John Quiller Rowett[4]
The Quest’s Goodly Company of Adventurers[5]
On the Way: The Quest in the Trades[58]
The Ship’s Pets:
Query, the wolfhound[59]
Questie, the cat, on Marr’s Shoulder[59]
South Georgian Whaling Station: At Work on BlueWhales[94]
Some Finny Spoil from St. Paul’s Rocks[94]
Launching the Kite for Aerial Observation[94]
Sir Ernest’s Cabin on the Quest[94]
Penguins at Home[94]
Dead Whales in Prince Olaf Harbour[94]
View from above a South Georgia Glacier[94]
Cape Pigeons at South Georgia[95]
Gentoo Penguins[95]
The Quest Narrowly Escapes an Iceberg[120]
The Midnight Sun in the Land of Ice[120]
Finding the Magnetic Dip: Jeffrey and Douglas atWork[121]
Taking the First Sounding in the Frozen South[121]
The Quest is Frozen In[140]
Forging Ahead through Loose Pack Ice[141]
In the Antarctic: The Quest a Mass of Frozen Spray[141]
The Wake of Loose Ice as seen from the Crow’s Nest[182]
A Close-up View of the Pack[182]
Entering the Pack[183]
Collecting Ice for Replenishing the Water Tanks[183]
Scout Marr presents Sir Robert Baden-Powell’s Flagto the Tristan da Cunha Troop[204]
We go in Search of Fresh Food[205]
The Quest off Inaccessible Island[205]