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[00:35.00]Chapter 1 Two Ships
[00:39.29]The race began in the summer of 1910．
[00:44.23]On June lst,in London,
[00:48.07]a black ship,the Terra Nova,
[00:51.50]went down the river Thames to the sea．
[00:56.16]Thousands of people stood by the river to watch it．
[01:01.60]They were all excited and happy．
[01:05.90]On the Terra Nova,Captain Robert Falcon Scott smiled quietly．
[01:15.91]It was a very important day for him．
[01:20.76]He was a strong man,not very tall,
[01:25.68]in the blue clothes of a captain．
[01:29.90]He was forty-one years old,
[01:33.26]but he had a young face,like a boy．
[01:38.29]His eyes were dark and quiet．
[01:42.41]One man on the ship,Titus Oates,smiled at Scott．
[01:51.60]'What an exciting day,Captain!'he said．
[01:56.62]'Look at those people!
[01:59.61]I feel like an important man!'
[02:04.19]Scott laughed．'You are important,Titus,'
[02:09.38]he said．'And you're going to be famous,too．
[02:14.80]We all are．Do you see this flag?
[02:20.98]'He looked at the big British flag at the back of the ship,
[02:25.81]and smiled at Oates．
[02:29.56]'That flag is coming with us,'he said．
[02:34.18]'In the Antarctic,I'm going to carry it under my clothes．
[02:40.63]We're going to be the first men at the South Pole,
[02:45.20]and that flag is going to be first,too!'
[02:51.05]Five days later,on June 6th,
[02:56.28]a man opened the door of his wooden house in Norway．
[03:02.01]He was a tall man,with a long face．
[03:06.53]He waited outside the house for a minute．
[03:11.52]Everything was very quiet．
[03:15.70]He could see no houses,
[03:18.34]only mountains,trees,and water．
[03:23.92]It was nearly dark．
[03:26.49]The sky was black over the mountains．
[03:31.81]The man smiled,
[03:33.65]and walked quickly away from the house,down to the sea．
[03:40.30]In the water,a big wooden ship waited for him．
[03:46.25]The man got onto the ship,
[03:48.86]and talked and laughed quietly with his friends．
[03:53.89]The ship's name was Fram,
[03:57.40]and the man was Roald Amundsen．
[04:02.43]The Fram was the most beautiful ship on earth,
[04:06.29]Amundsen thought．
[04:09.59]His friends were the best skiers on earth,too．
[04:15.19]One of them,Olav Bjaaland,smiled at him．
[04:21.54]'North Pole,here we come,Captain,'he said．
[04:27.40]'Yes．'Amundsen said．
[04:30.95]His friends could not see his face in the dark．
[04:35.46]'Fram is going to the Arctic．'
[04:41.40]Everyone on the Fram was ready to
[04:43.66]go to the North Pole,to the Arctic．
[04:49.02]Amundsen wanted to go there,too．
[04:52.98]But first he wanted to go south．
[04:57.44]His friends didn't know that．
[05:01.45]At midnight on June 6th,
[05:05.04]the Fram moved quietly away from Amundsen's house,
[05:10.06]out to sea．