Show THAT EXPLORING EXPEDITION I A party has loft Provo for the purpose I I pur-pose as staled of exploring the contl and I i j nenl to the Isthmus of Panama South I beyond thai lo continue through I I America to Valparaiso The purpose I Is as understood to drive In wagons thai the whole distance Of course tlnl I will be 1 failure because if they surmounted to mounted the troubles on the way mOl be several there would Costa Rica then eral hundred unllcs over which there which the would be no roads and over trails for pack animals arc dlssJty ones Jour I Moreover It would be a prolliless lloreo < l I some there ney at best unless was for making It 1 scientific reason 01 ug for I survey preliminary they went on a prelminary a railroad or If I they were gifted Investigate the country from enough to Ineslgatc couuty a scicnllfic point of view lo discover Its physical features Its nora and its formation or to fauna its geological llol that intelligently explore any ruins might be discovered thai would be till right but to make the journey Just for the sake of saying that they had made II from the time they pass into Costa lilca until they reach Ecuador It will IK if attempted more like templing Providence tlian anything else because I they cannot keep on the highlands 1 the way and the lowlands of those regions people unaccliinated and exhausted gions to people unacc1mated hausted by hardships are almost surely fatal Thousands of people died Just from attempting to cross tho fifty miles before Asplnwall and Panama between Asplnwal the railroad was built Even the natives na-tives in the highlands when they go down to the seashore with their mile crops to sell them though their vlsll is but three or four days find a poison In the air which kills 5 per cent of them We can understand that a Journey through Arizona an > l through the Stales of Mexico even lo Campechc but beyond would be a most pleasant one yond that I Is foolishness to try to penetrate I Is much better to trust to the sea and to slopping at one port after another and exploring the Interior Inte-rior with the base on the seashore but through the thirty degrees of lalllude and longitude beyond the southern i I boundary of Mexico to the northern boundary of Ecuador Is a stretch of 2000 miles which for any class of Northern men In the world to attempt to explore by journey the length of it would be criminal They will be needlessly need-lessly jeopardizing their lives without avail and without the possibility of accomplishing any worthy object In the world I would bo 0 more reckless I undertaking than Andrcc undortook when he tried to find the pole in a balloon bal-loon |