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returned. Expeditions were sent to the
North Pacific in search of him, but no
traces were found of him until 1888, when
another Frenchman on de Lesseps), land
ing on the coast of Kamtschatka, discov-
cred some articles which had belonged to
the missing ships; hence it was coniec-
tured that they had been wrecked in the
neighborhood. The fate of Leichardt,
the Australian explorer, is still unknown.
He started on his exploration in 194s,
since which time nothing has been heard
of him.
The fate of most other lost explorers
has been ascertained sooner or later af.
ter their death. Without dwelling upon
the mythic instances of the Irish Mis-
sionary Ion, who came over to Massa.
chusetts In the year, 1049, and was muir
dered there by snvages, or one OF the
Italian brothers, Nicola and Antonio
Zeno,, who, in 1880, did the same thing
and mat with the same fate, the list be.
ginning with the Spaniard, Juan Ponce
de Leon, is long enough. He was the
explorer OF Florida, and gave that State
the name shs bears, but he fell in con.
flict with the natives. Francisco Fer.
nandez de Cordova, anothoT Spaniard, at.
tempted the exploration Of Y'alcatan, in
1917, but received wound there, of
which he died on his return to Cuba.
The great Portuguese navigator, Fer
dinand Magellan, (or, more properly,
Mageihaens), the first European who
sailed around the world, and gave the
Pacific Ocean the name it bears, was
killed in a fight with the natives of the
Philippine Islands, in 1920. Pampilo de
Nareuaz, commander of Spanish eX-
pedtion in search of wealthy empire
somewhere in North America, was
driven out to sea by storm from the
Bay of Appallachee, and drowned. This
was in the year 1923. Fourteen years
afterward the famous Spanish noble,
Ferdinand De Soto, after countless ad-
ventures, died on the banks of the Mis-.
sissippi. "To conceal his death from the
natives, his body, wrapped in mantle,
and placed in a rustic coffin, in the
stiffness of midnight, and in the pres.
ence of a few faithful followers, was
silently sunk in the middle of the stream. y
In 1888 Sir Humphrey Gilbert sailed from
England, with the design of founding a
colony on this continent, but his ship
was wrecked, and all on board perished,
This brings us TO more modern times
In 1910 the illustrious English navigator,
Captain James Cook, was killed by the
natives of Hawaii, while he was engaged
in the humane attempt to stop his men
from firing on them. In 1905, the fa
nous Scotch traveller, Mungo Park, hav-
ing explored the Niger and reached Tim
buctoo, was attacked by the natives, neal
this mysterious city, and, in endeavoring
to escape by swimming, he and all his
companions were drowned. This fact
was ascertained by a native guide, three
months afterward, but it was not known
in England until five years later. In
1876 John Williams, an English mis-
sionary to the New Hebrides, was killed
and eaten by the natives. In 1929, the
three Englishmen, Denham, Audney and
Clapperton, with others, explored the
North of Africa, by way of Tripoli, the
Great Desert of Sahara and the Kingdom
of Bornou. Audney died of disease an6
privation. The others returned home
but Clapperton, a few months afterward
died while exploring the Niger, and hi,
faithful follower Richard Lauder, per
| ished by the hands of the natives. Majol
Alexander G. Laing met with a like fatt
in 1926 In 1s45, Sir John FfankliI
started on his fatal Arctic voyage, and h,
and all his companions were lost; his fat'
was not ascertained until 1859. The la
mented missionary, Allen Gardener, dice
of starvation, on Pictou Island, in 1851
The German Asiatic traveller, Adolpl
Schlagenweit, was murdered in 1857, by
a native chieftain. The bodies of Burk,
and Willis, and four other explorers. wer
found in the wilds of Australia in 1861
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