Tuesday, January 16, 1912
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Gap in Correspondence
No surviving record of correspondence for this date. The Archive continues through witness accounts and official records.
Official Register
1912-01-16Top News
In the Antarctic, Captain Robert Falcon Scott wrote in his journal that 'The worst has happened' after his expedition found traces of Norwegian dogs, realizing Roald Amundsen had beaten them to the South Pole.
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Witness Observations
"Dearest - I woke about 9 - & went to my window - a large clump of ilexes was growing outside en plein street... We passed Capua in the dark alas! - & thirsting terribly by a strange irony - & arrived at Naples in pitch-blackness... We glided into a noisy amusing crowded port... & amongst them brown too, but differently brown, Montagu stood... We drove through Palermo a funny coloured, coloured town of complex smells to our hôtel the Villa Iglea..."