Life Aboard Endurance

Photographer Frank Hurley's Journal, October 9,1915

Sweethearts and wives* toasted with music and song. One member places ice on Sir Ernest's bogie fire, mistaking it for coal, probably the result of overtoasting during the evening. The fire is extinguished and Sir Ernest very irately wigs the offender. He also, it is alleged, put coal into the ice pot.

*The traditional seaman's toast is: "Sweethearts and Wives! May they never meet!"