But if we have been willing to give our lives to this enterprise, which is for the honour of our country, I appeal to our countrymen to see that those who depend on us are properly cared for.

As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface.

We are very near the end, but have not and will not lose our good cheer.

Every day some new fact comes to light - some new obstacle which threatens the gravest obstruction. I suppose this is the reason which makes the game so well worth playing.

It seems a pity, but I do not think that I can write more. For God's sake look after our people.

But we have been to the Pole and we shall die like gentlemen. I regret only for the women we leave behind.

The dog lives for the day, the hour, even the moment.