They came
upon mountains and glaciers of ice, and mineral rocks of coal and
limestone.
And they found tiny insects which are able to live in the ice, and
when they boiled them, they did not kill them!
They found that the penguins, the great wingless birds which sit up
and look just like people, enjoyed listening to a gramophone, which
they set going for their benefit.
But their journey back was a very anxious and trying experience for
them.
In order to guide them they had planted flags here and there along
their path, but storms came and blew them down, and it was, therefore,
most difficult to find their way from one food depot to another. They
did it largely by spooring their old tracks.
This is how Sir Ernest Shackleton describes their doings on one
particular day:
"We were thirty miles from our depot. Although we could see it in the
distance, it was practically unattainable, for soft snow covered
treacherous crevasses, and as we stumbled along in our search for food
we seemed to get no nearer to our longed-for goal.
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