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Title: The voyage of the Why not?' in the Antarctic; the journal of the second French South polar expedition, 1908-1910
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Charcot, Jean, 1867-1936 Walsh, Philip
Subjects: Pourquoi-pas? (Ship)
Publisher: New York, London : Hodder and Stoughton
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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, and how grateful is the friendship which mustbind me henceforward to those of its inhabitants whose namesI shall have occasion to mention. At Punta Arenas my wife, who had bravely accompaniedme so far, left me, to return and watch over our home duringmy absence. This expected and inevitable separation was,nevertheless, a wrench which only our high ideal of dutyenabled us to bear with. Certain people may have smiledover the presence of a woman on board during the first partof the journey, and even have found in it an excusefor be-littling the grave and serious side of our work. But others—happily the majority—only saw in it a touching proof oflove, courage, and interest in the object which I had in view;it is the opinion of these latter for which I care. My ownthought was to labour for my country and for the honour ofa name made illustrious by my father and rendered still more,dear to me by her who, in adopting it as her own, was willingto aid me in sharing its responsibility. 27
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THE DIARY OF THEEXPEDITION PART I THE SUMMER OF 1908-1909 r\ECEMBER 16, 1908.—In fine calm weather we weighanchor from Punta Arenas at 9 p.m. M. Blanchard,the kindly French consul, coming on board on his launchLaurita at 8.30, brought with him the Governor, M. Chaigneau ;M. Henkes, one of the Norwegian directors of the MagellanWhaling Company ; M. Grossi, an Italian merchant ; andour fellow-countrymen, MM. Poivre, Beaulier, Detaille andRocca. We drank a glass of champagne, and shook withemotion the hands of all these kind-hearted people, nowbecome our friends, and then away we went ! The Lauritasaluted us with three blasts of her whistle, while her passengerscheered and shouted Vive la France ! The crew of theChilian Government hulk did the same, and at the very endof the roadstead the look-out man standing all alone on abig steamer gave us a loud Godspeed. December 17.—The night has been calm and clear, butby morning the mountain-tops are wrapped in clouds, andthere is a slight s

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