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Show I PLANS EXPLORING EXPEDITION I Capt. J. Foster Stackhouse, F. R. G. S., F. R. Z. S., F. R. S. G. S., etc., is now organizing an expedition that stirs the blood of every real adventurer. adven-turer. For six years he and his companions com-panions will forget civilization and its luxuries and Bail away into virtually unknown parts of the world. Their reward will bs a trip to all the seven seas, visits to islands and territories still untrod by the feet of white men, discovery and adventure in every latitude lati-tude from the equatorial Pacific to the Sea of Okhotsk and then back again to the Antarctic and glory. They will have a chance to study the oceans as they were never observed before, and they will be participants in the principal object of the voyage, the discovery and mapping of 2,500 unknown un-known islands, rocks and reefs in the Pacific, reported from time to time by skippers and never officially charted. The expedition is known as the British-American Oceanographic expe i 1 7 dition, and it will make its voyage in the Discovery, the ship in which Captain Cap-tain Scott made his last and fatal trip to the Antarctic regions. The vessel is now fitting in London. Next May it will sail from New York, down to the Panama canal and out into the Pacific, where trade routes will be explored for about three years. |