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Hey, it's a lot better than soaps. I'm following you two with great
inerest.  -Hewitt

On 3/3/09, George Huxtable  wrote:
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>  Brad has kindly sent further transcribed pages, from Worsley's log of the
>  Caird voyage, and I propose to do my best to decode them. Now we have
>  largely cracked the working of one observation, I expect the others will
>  follow without too much hassle.
>
>  But there are quite a few pages, so this is likely to run and run.
>
>  Which leads me to this question. Is this a dialogue just between Brad and
>  me, or is anyone else taking an interest? If anyone else is following the
>  matter, please post a note to say so (even just one such request will do).
>  Otherwise we will, if Brad agrees, take the discussion off-list.
>
>  I've been following up a few contacts. I have an old friend who has actually
>  crossed South Georgia, in Shackleton's tracks, about 25 years ago. He has
>  alerted me to a publicatation, in a Geographical Journal, of an article
>  describing a survey of Elephant Island in 1970, with fold-out map. I hope a
>  copy will arrive soon. He has also pointed me to a book by Dunnett, founder
>  of the James Caird Society, called "Shackleton's Boat", ISBN 0948028025.
>  This appears to be now out of print, and available second-hand (from the US,
>  mostly) at an eye-watering price. I've located a copy that's a bit less
>  eye-watering, and hope to see it soon. I am told that it contains
>  transcriptions from the Worsley log (about which more anon).
>
>  I've also made some enquiries of my own at Canterbury Museum, where the
>  original log is held. Explaining my interest, I asked if anyone else had
>  analysed those observations, as there's no point in the same thing being
>  done twice. They told me that an American had made enquiries , back in
>  November, and kindly offered to put us in touch. This evening, he phoned me,
>  and it turns out to be a navigator with whom I had had dealings some years
>  ago, concerning the Lewis and Clark expedition. It is a small world we
>  occupy, those interested in celestial nav. It turns out that he has a copy
>  of the Dunnett book, in which he tells me that Worsley's log has been
>  incompetently transcribed, by someone who clearly had no idea what all those
>  numbers meant. Anyway, he and I and Brad seem to be thinking along similar
>  lines. I will try to entice him into Navlist.
>
>
>  George.
>  contact George Huxtable, at  george@hux.me.uk
>  or at +44 1865 820222 (from UK, 01865 820222)
>  or at 1 Sandy Lane, Southmoor, Abingdon, Oxon OX13 5HX, UK.
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