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Show Scientific Men Propose to Probe- Deep Secret of South Atlantic Island , 9r MAi itiri hki-k, ri'.KVEUASD, O.. Bapt. !. MOtt rat ! . Mention that word la a hard-aaad hard-aaad mariner. VYatrk tha I Ida of hia eyeg tighten. Match him grow a ahada whiter. Kor "Bouvet," myatary Island of tha mvattrioua Mouth Atlantic oceaa, haa baffled, ao far aa la known, alt attampta at exploration, explora-tion, all efforte of civilised whlta man to plumb Ha ae"rets. on or about the renting October 1ft. eta teen adventurous souls will point tha rum of a three maated ehooner toward Iouve(, 1 and the myriad of th r romantir nonke In tha Routh Atlantic and Indian oraana about which fotka know ao little. Theae mm, commanded by George Pin lay Hlmmoni, will leave New London, Conn . In tha Intereate of science. Mailing undar tha colora if th Cleveland muirum of nat-ural nat-ural history, they will ba gone two lonr yaara. They will vlalt many pJarea, gather many natural epecimena, aee atranaa aighla. Put nothing ao In-triguea In-triguea th Imagination as thair rontempalted and determined as-ploratlon as-ploratlon of Bouvat, myatary Island. . a a About two yara ago Paul Mar-aha Mar-aha 11 flea eonived tha Men of a greater muirum for thla city. Hia lde aiDand-d ao rabidly ha la now stats lij. t' nT -"7 C JlWSHICA. tf N, (f AJ y INDIAN I "S Siruiwich ready 10 undartako n $10a.aoo tt pMlltlon In a vessel that costs ML- aOO maroly to Insura aomolhing worth whllo for tha Ohio matropo I na ! A naw bulMlnr will ba flnlahad by tha lima tha aapadltlon raturna. In tw yara Aad Olavsland prom -lata to haaa an Inatltutlon rivaling lis famous "competitor" (h mu-itum mu-itum of natural hlalory of New York City). a a a What tha etxtaoa man will find on Bouvet they do not avan pro-faa pro-faa to gueas. Wbether they will find It la In Itaelf a oueatlon. Whn oihara approached It. ft Beamed to vanish In vapor. And vet, deaplte tha repeated fallura of mar Iners to land on Pouvet . saf wring Map aaWwtaia vwane aspect ton will tatho. Hiabt la throo sMafed aibaaaiap lawawaa, whleti anew wUI men are positive that such a place exiata. It Is about a thouaaad miles south west of the Cape of Uood Hope. Tha legend goes that the Kranrhman for whom tha ialand la named and two others are tha anly onea aver to locate It. And It la not certain that they ware able to land, for no rarer of what- they found ever came bark to tha world. It la the queation mark of tha aeas, fully aa myvterloua aa "laland X." tha brain child of a aovaliat la a recent effort. Many other Islands will be vie-Itad, vie-Itad, probably fifty In all Kernan-dorona, Kernan-dorona, Trinidad, tha Sandwtch group, Kerbulen, and many more. In all probabilllty. thirty thousand thou-sand mllee will be traveled. That could only be a guess, though. Commander Com-mander Simmons eiplalna The winter aaaon will be apant lar Africa, Af-rica, with Capetown aa tha baaa of operatlona. In two years tha aBped'tlon will return. And the members aboard, many dentists from various aartlona of (he country Included, firmlv believe that they will have added a new "hapter to the science of America. |