Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 115, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1920 — Curious Experience. [ARTICLE]

Curious Experience.

Perhaps one of the most curious experiences which ever fell to the lot of a man. was. one which .happened to Mr. Priestly, who was the geologist to the first Shackleton expedition to the South pole, and later was geologist to the Scott expedition. The party ashore at Cape Royds on the first Shackle-ton expedition were at dinner when the Nimrod arrived to take them off. They were obliged to leave their meal and go aboard the ship immediately. Three years later Priestly returned to Cape Royds with Scott, and going ashore entered the hut, and completed the meal which he had commenced in 1907. He tells that the food was in exactly as good condition as it was on the day he laid his knife and fork down. This fact is accounted for owing to the drytiess of the atmosphere. During the three years that the hut had been uninhabited. the intense cold had frozen the food, thus preserving IL