| Show dark lands invite the explorer earth ear th regions unmapped and mere alere names to scientists exploration Is still mill thou glit of ns n phase of adventure rather titan of nf science yet it must frnnk in imbor tance with the work that the ghys phs casts I 1 and chemists tire doing loin in tear fear ng bits 0 of f chatter apart in order to discover of what the lie earth tin anil the stars tire made it la Is science tit nt its empirical best we live on a planet small ns as celestial bodies go but huge to US so BO huge that only a few cen aurles ngo were we re sure of f its globular shape like ants WP we tire still busily railing crawling over it poling poking into strange nooks rind that turp out to be fjords wriggling through jungles rind and swamps skirting skirling deserts and fastnesses fast nesses that w we e for fear to enter the passing of larince of savoy better known us the duke of the abruzzi reminds us how muc i crawling remains still to be lone done in his fits lifetime lie held two records one for a farthest north that peary was destined to bent beat rind the other for timing having climbed to the unprecedented height of 0 0 feet in an unsuccessful it list access fill attempt to scale mount godwin godat n austen or N ka 11 in the kashmir Illma loyas scientifically more mere important was fits conquest of the Ruwen zori range Ptole mys log leg andary mountains of the he moon where the nile was supposed to have its source beurce lie ile roust be regarded not only ns as the lineal descend descendant ant of kings but ns as the spiritual descendant of that long line of bold curious rind restless men who pushed pu bcd on into the unknown and thus stilled some name less inner racial urge to carry on oil the antlake exploration of the ter surface was lie he the last of the lie great roam reamers half athlete and halt half scientist a writer in the new york times although the airplane tin and the zeppelin have hate added more to our topographic knowledge ledge in a week than we could hope to gather in a century of tedious crawling we cannot yet expunge the words terra term in cognata from the geographical lext con unit halt the arctic and the ant arctic c fire still unmapped in alas ka are mountain blocks almost as mythical as was the range until the duke of 0 the abruzzi climbed it a region of incredible toles spun by indians and eskimos the heart of the sahara lures with its ita rumored oases of antiquity rind and the mountains of its kerber berber songs in northern north erli arabia thirsty wastes and blinding sand sandstorms storms 0 have proved perfect defenses 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 i valley alley still hidden in steaming jungles and deadly miasmal miasmas mi ml asmas central borneo and now new guinea are mere names the congo Is but half explored in australia we have the anomaly of a tonti continent nent of which the interior Is as dark a mystery its as was the region west of 0 the appalachians in jeffersons time northern and the lands about lake ngamy in africa await another abruzzi for nil all the trudging of doctor schmarl despite airways and steamship lines highroads high roads anti and railways wo we cannot yet pretend to know our own earth hartli completely green and red blanks on nn the maps mark dark lands and kingdoms of 0 wonder |
