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Camp 69 temperature minus 22 degrees a.m The South Pole We have arrived yet under very different circumstances from those expected We've had a horrible day Relation ran high all morning since we were nearing our goal and thought to be the first five men to reach the pole But our hopes were dashed when Evan sighted the flag in a tent near the spot The Norwegians have all told us now first to get here In the empty tent under the name of their leader route Rald Amundsen well this to the five men who are with him Is the terrible disappointments? And I'm very sorry for my loyal companions There's no doubt of it now They did find an easier way up over the barrier. We thought as much back at Cape Armitage. It's the rotten shame men And I'm sorry good Lord captain Scott. You've done everything you could and there's more to do more for all of us Eight hundred miles as a matter of fact Are you ready to start back Evans? I can't think of a reason to stay in this ruddy miserable place Is the flage ready Oates a bit frozen in I suppose yes, I imagine Wilson do you vote to start the first of the better captain bowels? Can you get a sight and start us off on course guy is a bit overcast, but I think so Yes, I think I can we'll go then as quickly as we can The minute saved here will mean a minute more of comfort aboard the ship January 18th temperature of minus 26 p.m The moment of departure is here It is impossible to collect our thoughts and few of them are voiced But I know the same are with all of us Can we pull the heavy sledge with great distance? 800 miles of attractors windflip barrier and drift Can we find the carefully arranged supply camp being left on our trail can we trust our navigation instruments Can we survive January 21st temperature of minus 30.4 This morning while feeling the stage from the ice Evan smashed his hand Afraid the poor chap is in trouble as wounds were not closed in this cold And we absolutely cannot spare the time to camp with our rations are very low as well as our fuel January 28th night camp temperature minus 27 The miles continue to fall behind us, but with painful slowness Our diet and with it our general condition has improved since finding our half-degree supply camp Only 42 miles to the next one But we're not without ailments. Oats is suffering from a very cold foot Evan's hands and face on a horrible stage And tonight Wilson is suffering torches from snow blindness Bowers and I are the only ones without trouble at present Don't try to help Evan just hold to the sledge Helping captain. I've got a rest anyway. I Get dizzy though. I don't sit down. I've been several feet Can't we put him in his sleeping bag and put him on the sledge? No, I won't do that. We can pull him I won't do it. It's for the good of the rest of us Evans. Oh, no. I'll stay here first Then it's an order. No, not that kind of an order I won't be dragged on by the rest of you Then you've got to come along seven or eight more miles Evans and we'll be stopping to the rest of our meals I'm not sick of those miles How many more seven miles are there? Let's cover these as well. How many more? Evan, I'll do the best I can. I'm sure that happens And everything will be all right. Yes All right, we'll be hot food in a few more hours. Let's move on February 11th, temperature of Mimers 26.2 The worst day we've had during the trip and greatly going to our own fault We started on a wretched surface pulling on sledge. The light was horrible dull by fog. It made everything look fantastic As we went on the light knew worse and we found ourselves in pressure Then came the fatal decision to steal east The disturbance grew worse. My spirit received a very rude shock The farther we plunged ahead the less possible it seemed that we could find a way out He struggled until 9 p.m. Do nothing more but make camp There's no getting away from the fact that we are not pulling strong Your eyes Wilson, how are they? Better I think. Let me see. Yes, I think they are Oh Evans, what were you saying? Was I saying something I didn't think I was I Thought I was asleep Perhaps you were know what you were saying Evans. You were naming the schools that donated sledges for the expedition Thought I was asleep must have been dreaming about home. I Like it better there than I do here. I mean I like dreaming about it like it Give as much rest as you can Evan We'll want an early start Well, how's your foot all right? It's better captain. It bothers a bit in the morning, but then it gets better good How do you get along so well captain? Because I know everything is going to be all right. Are you just cheering us up or do you really think so? Of course, I think so You know as well as I But spend it panning we've had if things going besides is it should There's a line of supply cams right back to the ship all we've got to do is follow it February 17th the very terrible day Although we got out of the turmoil Ever who's looked a little better after a good sleep and declared he was all right He started in his place on the places but half an hour later. He had to leave the sledge and follow behind At the first west stop he came up very slowly He stayed with us for a while then dropped out again We tried to pull him on the sledge, but had not the strength And he fell behind That's lunch camp before him coming far as turn the women looked again. He had fallen Is he alive great Very risky Oh When we got him into the tent he was quite comatose and he died quietly at 12 30 p.m The terrible thing to lose companion that way Is passing as a frightfully personal thing to each other as is usual our doubts and fears are not voiced But I don't think that one of us does not wonder how many of the remaining four can survive Autolight is bringing you mr. 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You're always right with auto light And now auto light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage Mr. Herbert Marshall in Elliot Lewis's production of the diary of captain scott a true story Well calculated to keep you in February 22nd night camp temperature minus 22.9 There's a little doubt we have inflow rotten critical time going home and the lateness of the seas may make it rather serious We never won the March of eight and a half miles with great difficulty than we did today We've come now a bit more than half the distance. She's almost 400 distressing miles of dragging still before us On the bright side we found another supply camp and ten full days of vision since it's less than 70 miles for the next camp I February 25th night camp temperature minus 23.2 Little despondent again The various terrible stuff Both his foot is almost completely gone and he is helpless The thieves are pulling up to Wilson almost totally blind now Bower than me And we do not do well at all The truth is there's not enough energy in our ration without tremendous Intakes of energy in this cold. We suffer physically mentally too There's little communication between us in the tent at night now Yes, what is it Scott? Well, I thought I heard something. I thought you said something. Didn't you know? I've got to talk to you about of course. I bow as I'm terribly worried. I Didn't think it was you called. I I heard my wife one of these conditions I wait to tell you It started last night. I Was with her bowels and there wasn't a dream I was dying awake Looking up at the peak of the tent Suddenly I was with her In our library at home must have been dream. Oh, I wasn't I Could feel everything and smell everything the perfume she was wearing the warmth in the fire I was warm bowels. I Was warm even after I came back here No dream can accomplish that. I Went home. I held with my arm and we went up to see our son It was nice and he was asleep and then we went back to the library And set the fire And it was warm I'm sorry that he's asleep Bob the Disney I know from every time and all of what tales I'll have to tell him Courageous men serving that country. I'll make him proud to be an Englishman. Oh, I'm sure he will be darling above all We must guard him against indolence. Let's make him a strenuous man Interest in a natural history better than games He'll be a good man and you Kate if I could tell you the millions of thoughts I've had of you I was with you. I think I worried so I knew you must have been suffering There was some There's bound to be one of fetus as great as ours the years of planning 800 miles we march to the pole 800 back But what wealth we brought to the scientists and what honor we brought to England your home darling And that's more important than science and honor your home and you won't ever go away again. No I've served my duty. I think I shall collect and arrange my notes That's I shall write a book and describe the bottom of the world and living there, but never go back The drift snow like finest flower Flickering up under one's clothing and stinging the sandblast but never go back the great cloudy columns of snowdrift advancing from the south and Heralding the storm No, I like it here. I'm warm It was a dream Scott Lord, it's nothing to worry about. It was not a dream All of your senses don't coordinate in a dream You don't smell and touch and feel Well, I've told you If it's the first sign of a breakdown, I Wanted you to know of course it isn't your splendid shape. Thanks powers I owe you a great deal nonsense at least I owe you the privilege of getting into sleep Good night. Good night first lunch very cold last night Minimum minus forty one point five, but our fortunes have changed at least the future looks brighter Bowers excellent navigating kept us precisely on course and on it. We found an unexpected supply tent containing rations and a note addressed to me The men back at the Cape had taken upon themselves to change plans for which we are happy The next camp we expected only supplies has been enlarged and manned We ought to be met there with dog sedges at that point our dragging days are finished and Only twenty four and a half miles away March 2nd night camp all the elation of yesterday has been crashed This fortune rarely comes in here This day we have suffered three distinct blows First to some oversight our fuel all supplies best than half what we thought it was second Tighter so this closed his feet They show very bad indeed They will never be saved Lastly the weather has turned on us blizzard conditions are extreme They're in a very tight place indeed But none of us is discondent or at least none shows it March 10th Things steadily going downhill midday minus 43 Blizzard still with us boats unable to go on so camped at noon Have covered only 11 miles in the eight days past Captain yes, so it's it's quite difficult to say this about Sunday heroic, but I'm going to die and I know it. No, you want those you mustn't talk like that. Oh, it's no good captain I know I am and I'm not afraid stop that oath. I know what I'm saying and the quicker it happens the better I'm not gonna hold the rest of you back. I Know how I felt about poor Evan He was holding us back and I knew he was going to die and I was angry at him for keeping on as long as he did Oh, what kind of talk is that? Oh, it's the truth. I don't care And he was holding us back, and I knew there was no chance of him. I wanted him to die I don't know what the rest of you were thinking but that's what I was And now I'm holding you back And I won't have that I Want you to leave me Will not leave you old please captain I'm not afraid I'd like to go. I'm tired and it hurts, and I'd like to go to sleep and not wake up I've no family to leave the rest of you. We won't leave you old. You know that I want it that way I'll get in my sleeping bag. I'll get to sleep I'm not afraid. I want to you can't do that. Oh Even if we agreed with you, we couldn't leave you please captain. You know, I'm right all of you know Please All 17 lost track of dates, but I think the last is correct Forty-dose is gone So this journal you found I want these facts recorded This was he then He woke in the morning yesterday It was blowing a blizzard. He said I'm just going outside jump along. He went out into the blizzard And we have not seen him since March 18th nightcap We are 14 miles away from the stage camp But oh fortune presses my right foot is gone two days ago as power possessor the best feet now one is gone The others are still confident in getting through but I don't know March went to first Got within 11 miles of dog slips camp yesterday The blizzard forced us to lay up We cannot move against it. We do not dare to leave the tents. It would surely die if we did Oh, I didn't see you so nice in the sun. I thought I'd sit out for a bit too nice Nothing like this at your precious South Pole. No, nothing like this Down there even when the sun is high it's always weak and diffused and Because of the reflections in the ice from every side There never is a definite shadow over the number of shadows of any man or object. I think you love it. No, I hate it Five men marched to the pole and they say they've conquered it, but they haven't It will conquer them You'll never go back. Will you know I didn't want you to go remember. I Was afraid you wouldn't come back Do you remember when I said that? Yes, I remember and I laughed at you. Didn't I I Laughed and told you that I would conquer it just for you But I would name a glacier for you Well, I didn't name a glacier for you, but I thought of a case. I Thought and dreamed of you so often It's important that you know Important that you know that I Think of you constantly you and our son He must be active And you must protect him and he must protect you. Okay, I love you. It's this guy fire. Yes. Yes, of ours Instead Wilson Wilson Since the 21st hours and I survived a Wilson I've had a continuous gale and blizzard from west to west and far west We had fuel to make two cups of tea a piece and bear food for two days on the 20th Every day we've been ready to start for the dog's edge camp 11 miles away But outside the door the tent it remains a scene of whirling drift I do not think we can hope for any better things now She'll stick it out to the end We're getting weaker of course and The end cannot be far, but I do not think I can write much more This rough journal and our dead bodies must tell the story in dying We are the following year an expedition formed by Captain Scott comrades at the main depot Joe at Cape Armitage set out and found his body along with that of Bowers and Wilson Search was carried on for oats and Evans But they were never found a great care and was built at the site of Scott's final camp Trivial monument to the courage of five men and especially to the complete devotion to duty of Robert Falcon Scott who until his dying breath continued to keep a record of The fatal journey sorry presented by auto light tonight star mr. Herbert Marshall and Once again here is mr. Marshall, but we enjoyed your performance as captain Scott and we hope you'll be back with us again soon Thank you. Hello. All you have to do is to ask me an Invitation for auto light to appear on suspense is where it is welcome with a letter from home Well, what it is like a letter from home because you see we count you a member of the auto light family along with the 98,000 auto light distributors and dealers the nearly 30,000 men and women in 28 great auto light plants from coast to coast and the 18,000 people who have invested the portion of their savings in auto light. Well, hello to all of the auto light family May I say thank you and while listeners may I say good night? And remember you're always right with auto light Next week another true story about an almost legendary man the dramatic recreation of the shooting of Billy the Kid Starring mr. Frank Lovejoy the program will be heard on Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis with music composed by Lucian Morrowick and conducted by Lud Bluskin The soloist tonight was Eloise The diary of captain Scott was adapted for suspense by gill dowd in tonight's story June Whitley was heard as Kate, Peter Owen as Bowers, Ben Wright as Oats, Joseph Kearns as Evans and Charles Davis as Wilson Herbert Marshall may be heard each week on his own radio program the man called X and Remember next week on suspense mr. Frank Lovejoy in the shooting of Billy the Kid For the location of your nearest auto light spark plug or auto light battery dealer or your nearest authorized Auto light service station from Western Union by number and that's for operator 25 Switch to auto light. Good night. This is the CBS radio network