Simultaneously we burst into a cheer, and then one said to the other, 'Thank God, the Boss is safe.' For I think that his safety was of more concern to us than was our own.
"Soon the boat approached near enough for the Boss, who was standing up in the bows, to shout to Wild, 'Are you all well ?' To which he replied, 'All safe, all well,' and we could see a smile light up the Boss's face as he said, 'Thank God!' "Before he could land he threw ashore handsful of cigarettes and tobacco; and these the smokers, who for two months had been trying to find solace in such substitutes as seaweed, finely chopped pipe-bowls, seal meat, and sennegrass, grasped greedily.
"Blackborrow, who could not walk, had been carried to a high rock and propped up in his sleeping-bag, so that he could view the wonderful scene.
"Soon we were tumbling into the boat, and the Chilian sailors, laughing up at us, seemed as pleased at our rescue as we were.

Twice more the boat returned, and within an hour of our first having sighted the boat we were heading northwards to the outer world from which we had had no news since October 1914, over twenty-two months before.

We are like men awakened from a long sleep.

We are trying to acquire suddenly the perspective which the rest of the world has acquired gradually through two years of war.

There are many events which have happened of which we shall never know.
"Our first meal, owing to our weakness and the atrophied state of our stomachs, proved disastrous to a good many.