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Show 1J " Viknowi Parts of tlhce Earthr Vast R.egions as Yet Unexplored ,' v hy White Men . ' In an exhaustive mtlclo In tlio QIo-bus, QIo-bus, n wall known Herman periodical devoted to geography, Dr. Rudolph Andree aums(up tho achievements of thooehtitrkln regard to geography, and wille fhd clalma that tho nineteenth nine-teenth century may ft ell ha tfrmtJ the century o( discoveries, he roraca to the conclualon that It wilt atllt he tho work of many years before tho surface sur-face of tho earth la known. The unknown un-known piuU of tho globe aro Illustrated Illus-trated In a aeries of charts In which tho "term Incognita li represented Id black. Concerning tho regions around the north pole, about which nothing li the Aalatlc continent the'researcbes of tho nineteenth century bare established establish-ed new and exact bates, yet there aro atllt amaller and larger.rrglons, which aro entirely unknown, Much remains to be done In ThlbetdrepHo the successes suc-cesses of Ituaslan, English nd t'rehch travelera and Indian surveyors, This la particularly tho case of the land north of the route of N-iln Singh (1S74-I87S), aouth of the Kwenlun and west of the route of the Journey of Do ltlilns In 1893. North of the Kwenlun Kwen-lun nnd of the routes of l'rschew.itskl and lledln, stretching to the Tanito, aro extensive unknown detcrta The eastern half of the Himalaya la known jtlca: ,wlll probably bo repeat"5 ' many years. A territory llttlo knows Is between the Niger In tho aouth, tti chain ot oasis of the Tldlkfclt In' tat north, the route of Lnz Inltbo-weu, and tho routes of Darth nnh Duvry. rlers In the eatL Much rcmiln to U d9ne In the Congo state. Here ths counts of the larger rivers hy r aurreyed, but tho MH territory b; tween the water courses Is uknowa. Hard work for the couragivml trsTel-ers trsTel-ers also Is required to exploroUh r glon of the sources of the Comgo nn the adjoining part of Drltlsh Central Africa, Portuguese. West Afrlfa anl Ilrltlali Hast Africa The s ioth ot Madagascar Is also unknown. 1 It may be surprising to mai lyP'- pie thnt explorers havo n wld in" of work In North America, nl a glanco at the black spots on U eitrt will show this to be the fat talne-ae-arrhra In the far Northwest old ' Alaska, caused by tho gold Dal tftnly i ii i, aasl-j I 1-. I y , ,,,, . .. , , ,). I ,U iU - ,U, -rsi mown, tho tasks ot futuro explora-1 explora-1 dons may bo briefly Indicated ns fol- ows: In the Aelatlc-Kuropcan I'olar oca, from Wrangel Land In the east to north of Bpltxenbergen In the wetl the unknown Is bounded by drifts of the Jcannette In 1S81 and of tho Kram In 189I-18JC. In north Greenland geographical geo-graphical knowledgo does not extend, generally speaking, beyond Lock-..wood's Lock-..wood's farthest point In 18S2. Cape Washington, and Peary's searches in the vicinity ot Independence Day In 1B9Z, but besides theso that part of tbo eastern coaat from Cape Bismarck (Itayer, 1870), to Independence Day, with tho ocean In front of It, la unknown. un-known. Nearly determined Is the extent ex-tent ot Orlunell Land toward the west, wbllo ot tho extent of the Elleimero Land south of It and about the ocean north ot Parry archipelago absolutely nothing Is known. Large parti of the coast ot Damn's Land also aeed exploration. ex-ploration. In thU resptct the next fear years are likely to add materially to tho geographical knowledge of the north polar region, for not Irsa than four expeditions on a large scale are nearly ready to start ffearvti for tha Faath rot. The south polar region, where the moat oxtenslve unknown territory la located, will bo attacked next year all plong the line. Most of the land In this region Is fixed by supposition upon the maps. Actual knowledge of land around tho aouth pole reaches only at six points beyond TO degrees latitude; at 10 decree cast longitude, whore James Rosa In 18(0 discovered Victoria Land and Its volcanoes and Borchgrevlnk In tho winter of 1859-1800 1859-1800 found tho magnetic south pole and reached the highest southern latitude lati-tude so tar, 70 degree CO minute; at 1C2 degree west longitude, where Koss In 1812 found land which Is probably a continental mass; at 110 degroo west longitude (Cook, 1774), nt 90 degree de-gree west longitude, where the Delglan expedition under Do (lerlache, during the winter of 1898-1899 drlften beyond 71 degree west longitude 30 mlnuto south latitude; at 35 dogrco weat longitude, longi-tude, where Weddcll penetrated to 71 degree 30 mlnuto aouth latitude, and finally at 15 degroo west longltudo (Ross, 1843). The mormons extent ot the unknown south polar region can best bo Illustrated If Ita limits ore transferred to a map of tho north polar po-lar region. It will then bo found that ithe boundary would Include Norway, iSlberla, and North America down to C5 degree north latitude, taking In 'the entire northern half of Alaska, -riiiixt suit n tijitrrr. Tor tho completion ot the map ot only In Incomplete outlines. Tho highest peaks of tho earth In this region have been measured by trigonometry trigono-metry from the fiats ot the Oangca river, but their bases nor tbelr topi have not been reached, Unknown In the aenae of modern research la also the territory east ot Ubutan across the Tsangpo, Drahma-putra, Drahma-putra, and the Yang-tse-Klnng. In the southern part ot Arabia Is the so-called so-called "vacant quarter," as will be seen from a glance at tho map, an area more than twice tho extent ot the Oct-man Oct-man empire. A.lliltr U Africa. In Africa the researches have been particularly active, and what Is known ot this continent Is almost exclusively the result ot work In the nineteenth century. Hut there Is still much darkness dark-ness In regard to thla continent, and the classic question Quid novl ex At- begin to show how much remain to be dune here, dcsplto the energy Uh which the governments ot the tilled States and of Canada puih surreys year after year. Much torrltorj In Labrador and In the regions bettren the great rivers and lakes of tho North Is also still unexplored. llach In Koath Amerloa. A glance at tho chart of Souti America Am-erica ahows that this pari of the Western hemisphere Is almost u in-known in-known aa "Darkest Africa," Of tbe Andes In Peru the peaks In Mi la, and the central mountain chain In the aouth ot Venezuela and Cuna nothing la known, A large numtur ot rlvere have been explored wlthlilse last twenty years, but others stUtrs watting (or the courageous traveltf. Ot Australia, Arnhera Land In north and tbe extensive 'drmrti In the east of West Australia are in-Hnown, in-Hnown, and the north nnd souti of South Australia have only been craa-ed craa-ed by few routes at great dleties from each other. The face ot the earth la kcowiln great outlines, but to portray It In detailed features Is still Impoeslbl |