, 1872-10-19
MISSING EXPLORERS.

MISSING EXPLORERS.
: From The Philadelphia Ledger.
Mr.. Stanley, having fairly established hia
claim to have discovered the whereabouts Of DR..
Livingstone, has added chapter to the meianS
The list Of them is longer than might be sup
posed, including in it the names Of those whose
fate has never been ascertalned, Of those The
manner of whose death is known, or conlectured
with probability, and Of thoEe who have tempo
rarily disappeared from observation, among
which last III. Livingstone may happily now be
classed. Romance and mystery shroud the
memories or those who have disappeared = leaV-
ing not wreck behind There IS Eric, the good
Christian Bishop Of Greenland, who, IN theyear
the red men, but how long he remained among
them, or whether he. ever got there, is unknown
to this day. Then there is Prince h1adoo, the
son OF Owen Gwyneth, King Of Wales, who, IN
the year ITO, went to sea in search OF adVen.
lures, and s said to have reached the shores OF
this continent and to have left some of his
people here. He went back to Wales for more
colonists, and again started with ten ships full
but neither he nor his ships were ever heard OF
afterward, and there are now no traces OF his
colony. In. 1902, the Portuguese navigator,
Casper Cortereal who had already explored the
coast Of Labrador; set out on a second explora-
tion of that country, but not returning as soon
as was expected, his brother sailed III search Of
him. No account, however, Of either Of them
ever reached Portugal. In 154e, the sieur De
Roberval, b wealthy Frenchman, who had
been invested by Henry II. of France,
with the empty titles Of Lieutenant General,
Lord and Viceroy Of all the ialands and countries
English, and Who had sailed up the ST. Lawrence
and built two forts near Quebec, started On .
voyage OF discovery and was never heard Of
again. In 1886 Captain Richard Chancellor, an
English navigator, set out to explore the Arctic
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ward the remains Of two English ahips we're
found on the coast Of spitzbergen, but it is not
certain that they were. those Of Chancellor. a
similar uncertainty attaches to the fate OF the
French navigator, La Perouse, who, in 1774 left
Pacific, in command Of two ships, La BouBso1s
and L'Astrolabe !; he never returned. Expedi-.
tions were sent in search Of him, but no trace
Of him .were, found until 1788, when
anohsr e5sni5gan e 6g COAST a. Of De msssssRsg
discovered some articles which had belonged to
the missing ships; hence it was conjcctured that
they had been wrecked in the neighborhood.
The fate of Leichardt, the Australian explorer,
|; is still unknown. He Htarted on his exploration
in 1888, eince which time nothing has been heard
Of him. --0.7.
The fate Of most otherlost explorers has been
ascertained sooner OF later after their death.
Without dwelling upon the mythic instances Of
tho 1rish Missionary Ion. who came over to
ed there by eavageg or one Of the italian broth
ers, Nicola and Antonio Zeno, who, in 1880, did
| the same thing and met with the same fate, the
| list beginning With the Spaniard, Juan Ponce de-
Leon, is long enonghs He was the explorer OF
! Florida and gave that State the name abe bears,
but he fell in conflict with the natives. Fran
cisco Fernandez de Cordovs another
sPan!e attempted s1 the 6t 9saqsd sspS5sti0n
" wound dAsd,s there, Of which he died on bis
return to Cuba. The great Portuguese navi-
| gator, Ferdinand Magellan Tor, more properly,
| Magslhaens), the first European who sailed
round the world; and gave the Pacific Ocean the
name it bears, Was killed in fight with the -na-
tives Of the Philippine Islands, in 1870. PAM
pilo do Narvuaz, commander OF Spanish e1pe-
| dition in search Of wealthy empire somewhere
in North America, was driven out to sea by q
storm from the Bay Of Apalachee, and drowned.
| ward the: famous Spanish noble, Ferdinand De
| Soto, after countless adventures, died on the
banks OF the Mississippi. "To conceal his death
from the natives, his body, wrapped in . mantle,
and placed in q rustic coffin, in the stiffness OF
| midnight, and in the presence Of few faithful
followers, was silently sunk in the middle OF the
| stream" In 1858, Sir Humphrey Gilbert sailed
| from England with the design Of founding a
colony on this continent, but his ship wae
| wrecked, and all On board perished.
| This brings uH to more modern times. In l77s
the illustrious English navigator. Captain James
| Cook, was killed by the natives OF Hawaii,
while he Was engaged in the humane attempt tc
stop his men from firing On them. In 1905: the
| famous Scotch traveller. Mungo Park, having ex-
| plored the Niger and reached Timbuctoo: was
attacked by-.the natives, near this mysterious
city, and, in endeavoring to escape by swimming
he and all his companions we're drowned. This
fact was ascertained By q native guide, three
months afterwards, but it was not known il
England until five years later. In 1876, Johr
Williams, An English missionary to the New
Hebridcs, was killed and eaten By the natives
IN 1922, the three. Englishmen, Denham
Andney, and clapperton, ;. With others, er
p]ored the North Of Africa, BY way Of Trpoli
the Great Desert Of Sahara, and the Kingdom q
Bornou. Audney died Of disease and priyation
The others returned home, but Clapperton, a
few months afterward, died while exploring the
Niger, and his faithful follower, Richard Ian
der, perished by the hands Of the natives: Ma
| jor Alexander &. Laing met with like fate II
1895. In 1845, Sir John Franklin started On hit
fatal Arctic voyage, and he and all his compan'
| ions were lost bis fate was not ascertained IN
| til 1859. The lamented missionary, Allen Gar
dener, died OF starvation. on Plctou Island; II
1851. The German Asiatic traveller. Adolpt
| schlagenweit, WAS murdered in 1857, by native
| cf1ieftain. The bodies OF Burke and Wills ant
four other explorers we're found III the wilds o.
Australia, in 1861. With them our present l1s
1 oloses, but it is not exhausted.
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