Given how much fuss Stantz had put up about coming on the Antarctic expedition in the first place, it came as something of a surprise, once they set foot on Antarctic soil, to find that the man was genuinely helpful. His insistence on seeing to the health and well-being of not only the expedition's machinery but all fifty-five of the sledge dogs was an unlooked-for blessing; Dyer had half expected, given Pabodie's reports, to have to order the engineer's every action personally. It seemed that once... read more
