3-047-200 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Scott Writing The Last Pages Of His Diary', c1929. 'The blizzard held them prisoners in their camp...Food they had - for two days - but very little fuel, and so "in the faith of the little children, they laid them down to die". Months later the relief party found the bodies of Captain Scott, Dr. Wilson, and Lieutenant Bowers...under [Scott's] shoulder were three notebooks, one of which contained these, some of the last words he wrote: "We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which shows that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past...These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale".' British naval officer and explorer Robert Falcon Scott's doomed expedition to the South Pole, 1910-1913. From "Heroic Deeds of Great Men", by C. Sheridan Jones and Alfred Miles, illustrated by Howard Davie and Harry Payne [Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd, London, c1929]