Into the Frozen South

by J. W. S. Marr

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

	CHAPTER		PAGE
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]