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Show tourtns ol Arrtca is a sealed wok ro us modems. The explorations of Stanley, and those who preceded him, are mere spider tracks in the desert, and our best maps of Africa are half guesswork. In Asia there is Thibet and Turkestan, and in Africa the great desert of Sahara to be explored. We know almost nothing of Borneo, Papua or Madagascar, and thousands of islands in the Pacific ocean are still unexplored. Great tracts of Australia have never been trodden by the foot of a white man, and nearly all of South America inside of the coast lines is known only by hearsay hear-say and tradition. Coming up to our northern half of the continent, we encounter en-counter more unknown lands. Central America and Mexico offer fertile fields for exploration, and lower California has never been thoroughly explored. In the far north is Greenland, Baffin Land, the great Hudson bay region, all of British America north of latitude CO degs., and our great territory of Alaska. Golden Days. Snme Grt l'nplord I.tnd. A great part of Asia and nearly three- j |