Show V v 11 The Dauntless Quest i IT VILL WILL be a bad day for adventure when the polar regions have been beeh completely explored There is a tonic to the stories of adventure in the land of everlasting snow that we will wilt miss when the Arctic and Antarctic Antarctic Antarctic Ant Ant- arctic have finally been mapped and catalogued catalogued catalogued cata cata- to the last last square mile Sir Hubert Wilkins flying over wastes of Ice and snow at the bottom of the is d his i. i his bit ot at hasten that that day He dis discovers discovers dis- dis covers ers that Graham Land is separated from front Antarctic continent by a long arm of the theand e and notes half a dozen new islands must go on all future maps Incidentally tally he and Lieutenant Carl Eielson risk their lives repeatedly to ma make e these discoveries Now NO all 11 ll of this makes very interesting reading even ven though we who read it never heard of Graham Land before have only the 1 haziest liest idea where it is and cant can't for the life tife Of Pt us s see see what difference it makes whether it iE is part parL of the Antarctic continent or not l It li is one one- of th those se places that we take on faith we shall never go there and we shall n never ver t talk lk with anyone who is going goin there But for all that the stories of Sir Huberts Hubert's discoveries make interesting reading Despite the fact fact- that he is covering the region in a am ani m ni modern dern airplane his story is only a new chapter in the old old story that was begun e countless centuries ago by the first Phoenician captain who dared to poke his rickety craft out beyond Gibraltar and continued through the ages by Columbus Magellan Fro FrobisHer lind nd Peary r This story is more than a summary oft of t rave brave deeds and dreadful hardships It is one of bf our our most priceless possessions a long epic of of the human races race's inexhaustible thirst for knowledge an eternal testimonial to its Capacity capacity capa capa- capacity city for going to da dark k places and braving death in desolate areas L. L The fhe race is restless It is never satisfied l with what it has or what it knows Always it must put itself to fearful bother and take lon long risks to add new facts to its collection That these facts sometimes turn out to have no practical value makes no difference The fact that men will peril their lives to get them gives them an extra significance To io be dauntless and to be everlastingly inquisitive these inquisitive these are two traits in us that wi wilt not die out So long as the they last last so so long as the Byrds and Wilkins persist daring death for or knowledge about a land that the race can never use use we we can have hope |