Show Weird Tale of Ex Explorers 1 RuSSIAN explorers in the Arc Arctic Ardic ic ocean claim 11 they haye have discovered a a mysterious m st r ous island which causes all aU approaching ships to change their course ourse Some weird power emanates from fromI I the island they report Before some other ex expedition expedition ex- ex explodes this this' eerie theory it ought fobe to fo be be bep be p o out mit t that this is the sort af of thing modern exploration needs t to make it exciting i There never was a tim time when when explorers explorers wen went 1 out so elaborately equipped both if for or discovery and arid Jo for publicizing th their it fr dis discoveries and th there re also nev never r was a time when there was so lit lit- lit little tle left for them to discover Exploration has bas begun to take on the aspects of a routine job and jd nd the glamour has just about gone gone out of it I But islands that turn ships off their route and v remain un unexplored ed because some mysterious invisible force keeps people from getting at them them that that now is something ing like lik it If we can j just t get geta a fe few more such stories our Byrds and will become as rom romantic tic a and d picturesque pic pic- e as Frobisher and Magellan It isn't entirely ly a matter for jokes really this decline i in he calling of ot the he explorer We p pel el In s seem t a little it le too oo much about th wold for our out oW own Wn gp good d. d It has no surprises es 10 1 1 lef for t r. Js Our imaginations dont don't get enough e exercise e. e There Ther was as a time e when people could paI paint t any kind of p picture ct re they liked about thela the the- th la lands ds' ds beyond the horizon horizons An in imaginative g geographer er could declare r th that t central Africa s inhabited by b. a race race pf men who had their heads a benc beneath their then shoulders or he could go into e exact ac details tans a about ou some city far up the I Amazon Aniaz lZ n nhat i that vas ras paved with solid gold and nobody n od f could ul contradict c n F t him because nobody y ih had d ever eve been e n there here or was likely to go there in inthe In tie the ne near future That provided interesting reading Dreading read g m matter er the for fi fireside eside and tickled tickle im- im o an m d men rne feel that hat they lived in I a a. limitless world wherein anything was was pos- pos 1 sible to a man who dared greatly enough It gave gaye men a sense of moving amid wonders and miracles and it was was' good for the he soul B But t now w we ar are t too o wis wise A Y yarn rn like this J. J Jorie one one about out the Arctic island is IS the most we can r. r stand I nd a and d we dont don't more than halfway be beJ believe be- be J lieve it |