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The Associated Press reports that anthrax spores have turned up in the Antarctic hut used nearly a century ago by British explorer. The spores probably reached the hut, at Cape Evans, in pack animals taken there in the course of British explorer`s drive for the South Pole, which he and four companions reached on Jan. 18, 1912. When the Scott party reached the Pole, after an 81-day trek, they found evidence that Roald Amundsen had beaten them there by about a month, according to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. The weather on Scott's return trek was terrible, even for Antarctica. On March 29, he wrote in his diary the final entry: "Every day we have been ready to start for our depot 11 miles away, but outside the door of the tent it remains a sea of whirling drift. ...We shall stick it out to the end, but, the end cannot be far. It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more."
On Nov. 12, 1912, a search party found Scott's tent with the frozen bodies, geological specimens, and Scott's records and diaries, which gave a full account of the journey.
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