Word: erebus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Byrd in his Virginia fashion. Sir Douglas knows the Antarctic better than does Sir Hubert or Commander Byrd. In 1907, when he was a scientific lecturer at Adelaide University, Australia, he was assigned to the staff of the late Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expedition. He ascended Mt. Erebus and journeyed to the South Magnetic Pole. In 1911-14 he led the Australasian Antarctic expedition. Last week he was at Capetown, South Africa, ready to depart with the Discovery, stout wooden ship used by the late Sir Robert Scott, who reached the South Pole (January 1912) one month after...
...Involuntarily the question arises what were the English seeking in our territorial waters in 1919? Without any formal declaration of war they attacked us, sank our ships and bombarded our forts. The English monitor Erebus frequently fired her 15-in. guns at our fort, Red Hill. The English broke into our house by the right of might to kill the workers and peasants and to turn back the wheel of revolution...
Hurrying down the darkness of Erebus...
...unfortunate men, what horror is this that has happened? Shrouded in night are faces and heads; to the knees it descends. See too crowded with ghosts is the porch, ghosts hurrying down to the darkness of Erebus. Out of heaven, withered and gone is the sun, and a poisonous mist is arising...
...urns were erected in Rhode Island, no black shells were dropped therein, but nonetheless 21 of her citizens went forth, last June, into exile, saying they feared for their lives. Last week, the exiles returned, their Odyssey completed, though one had visited Erebus never to return, and another tarried with the Lottophagi-in Worcester, Mass...