Food shortage

“The present shortage of food is due simply and solely from the Boss refusing to get seals when they were to be had and even refusing to let Orde-Lees go out and look for them… His sublime optimism all the way thro being to my mind absolute foolishness. Everything right away thro was going to turn out all right and no notice was taken of things possibly turning out otherwise and here we are.”

— Lionel Greenstreet

About Ernest Shackleton

Polar Explorer. Leader of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1917.
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