Ernest Holness Stoker
Orde-Lees
considered Holness, who hailed from Yorkshire, "the most
loyal to the expedition." Holness was so desperate to smoke during the long
wait on Elephant Island that, according to Orde-Lees, he "sits up in
the cold every night after everyone else has turned in, gazing intently at
Wild &
McIlroy
in the hopes that one of them will give him
the unsmokeable part of a toilet-paper cigarette."
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