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Show Dark Lands Invite the Explorer Earth Regions Unmapped, and Mere Names to Scientists. Exploration Is still thought of as a phase of adventure rather than of science, let It must rank in Importance Impor-tance with the work that the physicists phys-icists and chemists are doing in tearing tear-ing bits of matter apart In order to discover of what the earth and the stars are made. It is science at its empirical best. We live on a planet, small as celestial bodies go, but huge to us so huge that only a few centuries cen-turies ago were we sure of its globular globu-lar shape. Like ants we are still bnsily crawling over it, poking into strange nooks and crannies that turn out to be fjords, wriggling through Jungles and swamps, skirting deserts and fastnesses that we fear to enter. The passing of Frince Luigi Amadeo of Savoy, better known as the duke of the Abruzzi, reminds us how much crawling remains still to be done. In his lifetime he held two records one for a "farthest North" that Peary was destined to beat and the other for having climbed to the unprecedented height of 22,630 feet In an unsuccessful attempt to scale Mount Godwin-Austen or. K-2 in the Kashmir Himalayas. Scientifically more Important was his conquest of the Ruwenzori range Ftolemy's legendary leg-endary Mountains of the Moon, where the Nile was supposed to have its source. He must be regarded not only as the lineal descendant of kings but as the spiritual descendant of that long line of bold, curious and restless men who pushed on into the unknown and thus stilled some nameless, name-less, inner, racial urge to carry on the antlike exploration of the ter-restial ter-restial surface. Was he the last of the great roam-ers, roam-ers, half athlete and half scientist? a writer In the New York Times muses. Although the airplane and the Zeppelin have added more to our topographic knowledge in a week than we could hope to gather in a century of tedious crawling, we cannot can-not yet expunge the words terra incognita in-cognita from the geographical lexicon. lexi-con. Half the Arctic and the Antarctic Ant-arctic are still unmapped. In Alaska Alas-ka are mountain-blocks almost as mythical as was the Ruwenzori range until the duke of the Abruzzi climbed It a region of incredible tales spun by Indians and Eskimos. The heart of the Sahara lures, with its rumored oases of antiquity and the mountains of its Berber songs. In northern Arabia thirsty wastes and blinding sandstorms have proved perfect defenses de-fenses against hardened tribesmen, who have but skirted them. The Burmese hill Jungles are known only to the tribes who wander through them. And what shall be said of the Amazon valley, still hidden in steaming steam-ing jungles and deadly miasmas? Central Borneo and New Guinea are mere names. The Congo is but half explored. In Australia we have the anomaly of a continent of which the interior Is as dark a mystery as was the region west of the Appalachians In Jefferson's time. Northern Bechu-ana Bechu-ana and the lands about Lake Ngami in Africa await another Abruzzi, for all the trudging of Doctor Schwarz. Despite airways and steamship Lines, highroads and railways, we cannot yet pretend to know our own earth completely. Green, ochrous and red blanks on the maps mark dark lands and kingdoms of wonder. Inctiaui' S;jrth Governor 4-li Indiv.na f'.ir Us sixth -vtmled called on a native I'eiiiisy!--.m Hie David Wallace. lie v. as )i-jsc Mifflir; coimly, I'cnns.vlvi nia, tion of 24, 17A and while still yuin-cr and moved wlth iiis pttrents t- where they bfcame ricviMirs 0r-Gen. 0r-Gen. William Hem".; Harri.sun. |