AN ANCIENT MANUSCRIPT.
Now it is written in the 21st chapter of the 2nd book of the chronicles of the Great King, how that he did in the first year of his reign, and six moons after the Good Queen his Mother had been taken to her fathers, send forth the ship which was called Discovery;
And did say unto the captain, who was a captain of one of the King’s own ships, even a fighting ship;
Go thou unto the uttermost ends of the Earth, to that place where no man has yet trod, and which the wise men of the land do call Antarctica, and spy it out, and come back to me with tidings thereof.
And also it is written that the captain whose name was called Scott, did go with his ship and a goodly company of officers and men, and did diligently seek for that land until he found it.
And all the great works they did accomplish, and the trials and tribulations which did beset them, are they not also inscribed therein, and it is not of
