Further to Ralph's comments - > The story-- > His ship, the Endurance, got caught by the ice > in the Wendell Sea a few hundred miles from the Antarctica coast with 28 > men and 70 dogs and one cat. Further reading - there's a book out recently about the captain of the Endurance, Captain Worsley, as far as I remember, a New Zealander. A second book just spotted in the bookshop "Mrs Chip's last expedition", this is the journal "by" the cat, which actually was male, and belonged to the carpenter, hence "Chips". Shakleton shot the cat sometime during the expedition (just before the boat voyage?) and the carpenter, one of those on the James Caird, never forgave him. Alex -- ---------------------------------------------------- Alex Ferguson a.ferguson_at_chem.canterbury.ac.nz Electronics Workshop, Chem Dept, Univ of Canterbury Christchurch, New Zealand *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Apr 15 1999 - 14:03:35 PDT
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