249 “Trust nothing has happened”: Ibid., February 21, 1913.
249 “remains in my memory”: Davis, High Latitude, 219.
250 “From then on until morning”: Ibid.
250 “We are too late in the season”: Crossley, Trial by Ice, 62–63.
250 “The [pack] ice is nearly”: Ibid., 64.
250 “It was much better”: Ibid., 65.
250 Ensconced inside the Grottoes: Butler, Quest, 152.
251 “As the ship came alongside”: Ibid.
251 “But instead of the elation”: Harrisson, diary, February 23, 1913.
251 “Wild hailed & asked”: Ibid.
251 “At the foot of the barrier”: Laseron, “South with Mawson,” 152–53.
251 But the Western Base party: Butler, Quest, 152.
252 For Davis, there was no possibility: Davis, High Latitude, 222.
252 “It seems like a dream”: Crossley, Trial by Ice, 66.
252 Among all the scientific specimens: Butler, Quest, 157.
252 “Hope for the Aurora’s return”: McLean, diary, March 4, 1913.
253 “Last night quite a budget”: Ibid., March 9, 1913.
253 Basking in his triumph: Ibid., March 13 and 16, 1913.
253 Upon learning via radio: Ainsworth, narrative, quoted in HOB, 389–90.
253 “DEEPLY REGRET DELAY”: Flannery, This Everlasting Silence, 53–54.
254 “Covering Hut and fitting store”: MAD, 175, 183.
254 “there still remained useful work”: HOB, 315.
254 Bob Bage was put in charge: Ibid., 315–16.
255 Mawson tacitly acknowledged: Haddelsey, Born Adventurer, 113.
255 “The hut was not so cold”: Frank Bickerton, “Australian Antarctic Expedition,” quoted ibid., 113.
255 “DM and AM”: McLean, diary, March 19, 1913.
255 “Last penguins have gone north”: Ibid., March 29 and April 21, 1913.
255 “ ‘Scott reached the Pole’ ”: MAD, 183.
256 “Wireless hears Macquarie”: Ibid., 184.
256 “Jeffryes would sometimes spend”: HOB, 318.
256 “I find my nerves”: MAD, 185.
256 “Reading is a great solace”: Ibid., April 6, 1913.
256 “There was a fine supply”: HOB, 319–20.
256 “Bickerton once started out”: Ibid., 320.
257 “On May 23 Lassie”: Ibid., 322.
257 “the assessments of Mawson”: Riffenburgh, Aurora, 352–53.
257 “Cecil’s gloom deepened”: D. Madigan, Vixere Fortes, 289.
258 “there are no criticisms of Mawson”: Haddelsey, Born Adventurer, 120.
258 “Jeffryes sat in the batter pudding”: MAD, 187.
259 “Wireless good”: Ibid., 188.
259 “Wireless last few days”: Ibid., 190.
259 The men had been dreading: HOB, 322.
259 “On evening of 26th”: MAD, 191.
259 “Tonight Jeffryes goes to bed”: Ibid., 192.
260 On June 8, what all the men feared: Ibid., 193.
260 “Last night Jeffryes at the table”: Ibid., 196.
261 “Jeffryes confides in Bage”: Ibid.
261 “Jeffryes has been on night watch”: Ibid.
261 “Last night Jeffryes spoke”: Ibid., 196–97.
262 “Jeffryes came to me”: Ibid., 197.
262 On the same day, Madigan discovered: Ibid.
262 “Jeffryes continues to be a trouble”: Ibid., 198.
262 Chiefly the brainchild of Mawson and McLean: Riffenburgh, Aurora, 354–55.
263 expeditions producing periodicals: Leane and Pharaoh, Introduction, The Adelie Blizzard, xi.
263 The deadline for articles: Ibid., xii–xiii.
263 “Madigan showed little enthusiasm”: Ibid., xiii.
263 “Registered at the General Plateau”: Ibid., n.p.
264 “Could we but greet thee”: Ibid., n.p.
264 “This somewhat lugubrious title”: Ibid., [1].
264 “How they go down at heels”: Ibid., 10.
265 “An explorer’s life is the life for me”: Ibid., [2].
265 “Mining in the vicinity”: Ibid., 213.
265 “A championship is”: Ibid., 101.
266 “A is Antarctic”: Ibid., 75.
266 “The most obvious was the alleviation”: Ibid., xiv–xv.
267 “glad there’s no more to be done!”: McLean, diary, October 25, 1913, quoted ibid., xiv.
267 A favorite pastime was racing down: McLean, diary, August 20, 1913, quoted in Haddelsey, Born Adventurer, 120.
267 The men also played football: Haddelsey, Born Adventurer, 120–21.
267 “like a new kind of drink”: McLean, diary, September 9, 1913, quoted ibid., 121.
268 During the entire month of July: MAD, 199.
268 “I must say I felt very lonely”: McLean, diary, June 4 and 5, 1913.
268 “I spoke to him sharply”: MAD, 198.
268 “He seems to have no interest”: Ibid., 199.
268 “At ten to 1 pm Jeffryes appeared”: Ibid., 201.
268 “Sir, You have been”: Sidney Jeffryes to Douglas Mawson, July 13, 1913.
269 “I am to be done to death”: Sidney Jeffryes to Norma Jeffryes, July 13, 1913.
269 “I did not come down here to foment trouble”: Sidney Jeffryes to Douglas Mawson, July 19, 1913.
269 “It is curiously logical”: MAD, 198.
269 “overjoyed to find”: McLean, diary, July 20, 1913.
270 “I had intended to cook”: MAD, 198.
270 “Jeffryes helpless in this”: Ibid.
270 “I am now reluctantly obliged”: Sidney Jeffryes to Douglas Mawson, July 27, 1913.
270 “pointed out the impossibility”: Riffenburgh, Aurora, 359.
270 “What I desire is that”: Douglas Mawson, handwritten speech, July 28, 1913, quoted ibid., 359.
270 “instantly got up”: MAD, 199.
270 “Jeffryes makes no attempt”: Ibid.
271 “I deeply regret having made”: Sidney Jeffryes to Douglas Mawson, July 30, 1913.
271 Yet the delusions: Sharon Roberts, personal communication, February 13, 2013.
271 “I appear to be suffering”: MAD, 199.
271 Although he had gotten word: D. Madigan, Vixere Fortes, 294.
272 “He went through many stages”: Ibid., 292.
272 “Jeffryes avoided Cecil”: Ibid., 296.
272 “walking up and down”: Ibid., 297.
273 “ ‘Would you swear on the Bible’ ”: Stella Benson, diary, April 23, 1928, quoted in Haddelsey, Born Adventurer, 117.
273 “To Bickerton is due”: MAD, 200.
273 The news from Australia: Ibid., 200.
274 Wild had returned to his native England: Butler, Quest, 159.
274 Only weeks after returning: Ibid., 160.
274 In August 1913 at Cape Denison: MAD, 200.
274 “He does nothing now”: Ibid., 200–1.
275 “No sane man”: Ibid., 201.
275 “8/am Called Mq I”: AAE wireless log, August 31, 1913.
276 “At midnight press”: MAD, 203.
276 “Before dinner Jeffryes came”: Ibid., 204.
276 “Jeffryes is quite off”: Ibid.
277 “A new month”: McLean, diary, September 1, 1913.
277 “100 days to ship’s arrival!”: MAD, 204.
277 “This evening Jeffryes sending”: Ibid.
277 Unable to bear Jeffryes’s impertinence: Ibid., 204–5.
277 “wished all wireless to cease”: Ibid., 205.
278 On the 9th, Jeffryes simply sat: Ibid.
278 The radio log for early September: AAE wireless log, September 1–8, 1913.
278 “Red granites”: MAD, 206.
278 On September 14, Mawson relieved Jeffryes: Ibid., 207.
278 Two days before, Mawson had typed: Douglas Mawson to Sidney Jeffryes, September 12, 1913.
278 “Does no
t even empty rears”: MAD, 207.
279 “for 3 months [have] diligently”: Sidney Jeffryes to Douglas Mawson, September 21, 1913.
279 “He states that”: MAD, 209.
279 “He speaks moderately rationally”: Ibid.
279 On September 19, McLean made: Ibid., 208.
280 “First one to bring a penguin”: McLean, diary, October 12, 1913.
280 “Jeffryes seems better today”: MAD, 210–11.
280 It was not until October 4: Douglas Mawson to Sidney Jeffryes, October 4. 1913.
280 “This place is awful!”: McLean, diary, November 20, 1913, quoted in Haddelsey, Born Adventurer, 121.
281 Out on a walk on the 17th: MAD, 214.
281 “As the end of the year approached”: D. Madigan, Vixere Fortes, 301, 303.
281 On leaving Commonwealth Bay: Ibid., 301–2.
281 On October 31, the men were thrilled: HOB, 330.
281 Mawson’s diary for most of the month: MAD, 216–17.
281 “Jeffryes appears to think”: Ibid., 217.
281 On November 15, Bickerton picked up: Haddelsey, Born Adventurer, 121.
282 In actuality, the Aurora did not: Crossley, Trial by Ice, 70–72.
282 Mawson had decided: HOB, 331.
282 “Do not hesitate to put him”: Douglas Mawson to Bob Bage, November 19, 1913.
282 Intending to start on November 16: MAD, 217.
282 “At 4:15 camped”: Ibid., 219.
282 With the dogs pulling well: Ibid., 220.
282 On November 28, five days out: HOB, 331.
283 But on December 2, snow started falling: MAD, 222.
283 “Good weather”: McLean, diary, November 28, 1913.
283 On December 2, Bickerton, the compulsive: Haddelsey, Born Adventurer, 121.
283 “Nothing visible”: MAD, 225.
284 “Descending the long blue slopes”: HOB, 331–32.
284 Dashing down the last thousand feet: Ibid., 332.
284 “Just as most of us were dozing”: Ibid.
284 “As I shook [Mawson’s] hand”: Davis, High Latitude, 229.
285 “The two long years were over”: HOB, 333.
285 Bickerton’s last project on land: Haddelsey, Born Adventurer, 122.
285 “Erected to commemorate”: http://www.mawsonshuts.aq/national-heritage/physical-remains/memorial.html.
285 “solid enough to last”: HOB, 330.
285 Over the decades since 1913: http://www.mawsonshuts.aq/national-heritage/physical-remains/memorial.html.
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286 “As it was being converted”: HOB, 404.
287 “We had a fortunate escape”: Crossley, Trial by Ice, 81.
287 “Blowing fresh all day”: MAD, 227.
287 “This work is very trying”: Ibid., 244.
287 “The party are all anxious”: Crossley, Trial by Ice, 95.
287 “The welcome home”: HOB, 416.
287 A small coterie of friends: Riffenburgh, Aurora, 384–85.
288 “It is hard to describe”: P. Mawson, Mawson of the Antarctic, 102–3.
288 “Douglas Mawson has returned”: Ibid., 103.
288 At the first meeting, a messenger: HOB, 417.
288 “Douglas dictated a long message”: P. Mawson, Mawson of the Antarctic, 103.
288 “Mawson was born to be a leader”: Ernest Shackleton, “The Man and His Journey,” quoted in MAD, 247–48.
289 Only five months later, on August 1: Huntford, Shackleton, 377.
289 The evening before the wedding: P. Mawson, Mawson of the Antarctic, 104–5.
291 Mawson put him on a train: Riffenburgh, Aurora, 388–89.
291 “I left Sydney”: Sidney Jeffryes to Miss Eckford, July 14, [1914].
292 Poor Jeffryes would spend: Riffenburgh, Aurora, 416.
293 “It is now clear to me”: Sidney Jeffryes to Douglas Mawson, March 13, 1915.
293 “I have told you”: Sidney Jeffryes to Douglas Mawson, June 6, 1915.
293 “Mr. Jeffryes is very delusional”: [signature illegible] to Douglas Mawson, September 17, 1915.
294 In 2010, the Australian Antarctic Division: http://www.antarctica.gov.au/media/news/2010/australian-antarctic-glaciers-named.
294 “Ah, but is it not”: Douglas Mawson to Kathleen Scott, n.d..
294 “Besides,” she wittily appended: Kathleen Scott to Douglas Mawson, March 8, [1915].
295 “My dear Douglas”: Kathleen Scott to Douglas Mawson, April, 1920.
295 Some have speculated: Mark Pharaoh, personal communication, July 2011.
295 she was conducting an affair: Huntford, Scott and Amundsen, 545–46.
295 Paquita did not like Kathleen: Ayres, Mawson, 104.
295 “Shackleton has been lecturing”: Kathleen Scott to Douglas Mawson, April, 1920.
295 Less than two years later, on South Georgia: Huntford, Shackleton, 690.
295 On June 9, 1914, Mawson spoke: P. Mawson, Mawson of the Antarctic, 108.
296 “of the dreadful tragedy”: Belgrave Ninnis, senior, to Douglas Mawson, August 29, 1913.
296 “It was absolutely unexpected”: Douglas Mawson to Belgrave Ninnis, senior, March 17, 1914.
296 “had early been cut to pieces”: P. Mawson, Mawson of the Antarctic, 107.
297 “You will note that”: Douglas Mawson to Herr Mertz, July 8, 1914.
297 the original diary has somehow been lost: Mark Pharaoh, personal communication, July 2011.
297 “They were very kind”: P. Mawson, Mawson of the Antarctic, 117.
297 He had been absent: Ayres, Mawson, 104–5.
297 Bob Bage, the quiet: Riffenburgh, Aurora, 401–2.
297 Cecil Madigan spent: Ibid., 413; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Madigan.
298 “I had some close shaves”: Cecil Madigan to Douglas Mawson, December 18, 1915.
298 Archibald McLean, whose collaborative: Riffenburgh, Aurora, 406–7.
298 “Poor old ‘Dad’ McLean”: John Hunter to Douglas Mawson, n.d.
298 “I have been itching”: Douglas Mawson to Eric Webb, August 16, [1915].
298 Mawson eventually found employment: Ayres, Mawson, 115, 122.
298 One other member of the AAE: Rossiter, Mawson’s Forgotten Men, xviii–xix.
299 From shipboard, Shackleton telegraphed: Huntford, Shackleton, 379.
299 “Fancy that ridiculous Shackleton”: Winston Churchill to Clementine Churchill, March 28, 1916, quoted ibid., 488.
299 “London in the aftermath”: Huntford, Shackleton, 673.
299 “The manager at Boston”: Douglas Mawson to Paquita Mawson, February 4, 1915, quoted in Ayres, Mawson, 107.
299 The two-volume The Home of the Blizzard: Ibid., 101.
300 After the war, back in Australia: Ibid., 250; Riffenburgh, Aurora, 407.
300 Thanks to Mawson’s doggedness: Riffenburgh, Aurora, 408.
300 “The scientific goals of early”: Ibid., 421–22.
301 “the Australasian Expedition was easily”: Ibid., 421.
301 “Sir Douglas Mawson’s Expedition”: Hayes, Antarctica, 210.
302 “He was still purposeful”: Eric Webb, “An Appreciation,” in Bickel, Mawson’s Will, 231.
303 “No words of mine”: Hurley, Argonauts, 120–21.
303 “To me, when I was a young man”: Eric Webb, “An Appreciation,” in Bickel, Mawson’s Will, 228–29.
304 “I consider that I was”: George Dovers to Douglas Mawson, July 20, 1954, quoted in Ayres, Mawson, 253.
304 “The 1911–14 days will ever”: John Hunter to Douglas Mawson, January 31, 1957, quoted in Ayres, Mawson, 254.
304 “The years 1911–13 are still”: Charles Laseron to Douglas Mawson, December 9, 1954.
304 “Knowing that he was not”: P. Mawson, Mawson of the Antarctic, 220.
304 “Sunday was a perfect October day”: Ibid.
305 The prime minister of Australia: Ibid., 221.
305 Paquita spent six years:
McEwin, An Antarctic Affair, 216.
307 “Mawson had his faults”: Mark Pharaoh, personal communication, July 2011.
308 Jarvis was already one: Jarvis, Mawson, 12.
308 To play the role of Mertz: Ibid., 13–14.
308 The station, which first opened: http://www.antarcticconnection.com/antarctic/stations/davis.shtml.
308 “To make the project viable”: Jarvis, Mawson, 14.
309 Like the AAE explorers, Jarvis: Ibid., 58.
309 dogs have been banned: http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/about_antarctica/environment/wildlife/removal_of_sledge_dogs.php.
309 “as its leanness”: Jarvis, Mawson, 14.
309 “Mawson and Mertz couldn’t stop”: Ibid., 15.
310 “I was feeling extremely isolated”: Ibid., 133.
310 For through the first half: Ibid., 71, 80, 225.
310 At Davis Station, Jarvis: Ibid., 217.
311 “Despite pride at having completed”: Ibid., 227.
311 “I threw myself upward again”: Ibid., 212.
312 “probably the greatest story”: Edmund Hillary, Foreword, in Bickel, Mawson’s Will, 8.
312 “The greatest survival story”: Edmund Hillary, quoted in Riffenburgh, Racing with Death, front cover.
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