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Show Vast Areas Still Unknown. David Ocorgo Hogarth, tho geographer geogra-pher n1 explorer, said that In western Asia thero aro vast areas on which no European foot Is known to havo trod, nor even nny European eye to havo Jookod. Tho greatest unseon area llos In Arabia. Almost all the southern half of Arabia Is occupied, according to native report, by a vast wlldornoss callod generally Ilubn-el-Khall, "Dwelling "Dwell-ing of tho Void." No European has ver entored this immonso tract, ; which embraces somo 600,000 square miles. It would tako a bold man to -venture out for tho passage of either , 850 miles west to caBt, or 050 north to aouth in tho lsothormal fono of tho -world's greatest heat. |