Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-11-09
Missing Explorers.

ing history OF lost explorers. Inc list
of them is longer than might be sup
posed, including in it the names of
those whose fate has never been ascer.
tanned, of those the manner of whose
death is known. or conjcctured with
probability, and of those who have
temporarily disappeared from observa-
ton, among which last DR.. Livingstone
may happily now be classed. Romance
and mystery shroud the memories of
those who have disappeared "leaving
not wreck behind
Bishop of Greenland, who, in the year
ll2l, started for this continent to CON
vert the red men, but how he remained
among them, or whether he ever got
there, is unknown to this day. Then
there is Prince Madoc, the son of Owen
Gwyneth, King Of Wales, who, in the
year 1870, went to sea in search of ad
ventures, and is said to have reached
the shores of this continent, and to
have left some of his people here. lie
went back to Wales for more colonists,
and again started with ten ships full,
but neither he nor his ships were ever
u
no traces of his colony.
In 1902 the Portuguese navigator,
Casper Cortereal, who had already ex.
plored the coast OF Labrador, set out on
a second exploration Of that country,
but not returning as soon as was expect
ed, his brother sailed in search of him.
No account, however, of either of them
ever reached Portugal. In l549 the
Sicur De Roberval, wealthy French
man, who had been invested by Henry
III. of France with the empty titles Of
Northumberland, Lord and Viceroy
of all the islands and countries then
discovered, either by the French or
English, and who haa sailed up the st.
Lawrence and built two forts near
Quebec, STATED on voyage of discovery,
and was never heard of again.
In 1896 Capt. Richard Chancellor,
an English navigator, set out to explore
the Arctic Ocean, but never returned.
Many years afterwards the remains of
two English ships We're found on the
coast OF Spltzbergen, but it is not GER
tam that they were those of Chancellor.
A similar uncertainty attaches to the
fate of the French navigator, La
perouse, who, i'll IVA, left France on an
exploring expedition in the North Pa
cihc, in command of two ships, La
Boussole and LAstrolabe; he never
returned. Expeditions were sent if
search OF him, but no traces were found
until 1888, when another Frenchman
I NJ. DeLesseps), landing on the coast of
Aamtschatka, discovered some articles
which had belonged to the missing
SHIPS; hence 1t was conjectured that
they mad been wrecked in the neigh
borhood. The fate Of Leichhardt, the
Australian explorer, is still unknown.
He started on his ex plorations in 1913,
SINCE which time nothing had been
heard Of him.
The fate OF most other lost explorers
mas been ascertained sooner or later
after their death. Without dwellingupon
the mythlc instances of the Irish mis-
sionary, Ion, who came over to Massa.
chussetts in the year 1919, and was
murdered there by savages, or one of
the Italian brothers, Nicola and An
tonic Zeno, who in 1880 did the same
lhing and met with the same fate, the
list, beginning with the Spaniard, Juan
romeo de Leon, is long enough. He was
the explorer of FLORIDA, and gave that
State the name she bears; but he fell
IN conflict with the natives. Francisco
fernandez de Cordova, another Span
Iard, attempted the exploration of
ucatan in l5l7, but received a wound
there of which he died on his return to
Cuba. The great Portuguese navigator,
erdlnand Magellan Tor, more properly,
Magelhaens), the first European who
sailed around the world, and gave the
iacltlc ocean the name it bears, was
Killed in fight with the natives of the
l'hliippine Islands in 1920. Pampilo
ae Narvuaz, commander of Spanish
expedition IN search of wealthy en-
pre- some where in South America, was
irven out to sea by storm from the
Bay OF Apallachee, and drowned. This
Was IN the year 1928. Fourteen years
afterwards the famous Spanish noble,
erdlnand de Soto, after countless adj
'entuIes, died on the banks of the
Mississippi. "To conceal his death
rom the natives, his body wrapped in Il
mantle, ana placed in rustic coffin, in
he stiffness Of midnight, and in the
presence OF a few faithful followers, was
identity sunk in the middle of the
tream.' In 1888 Sir Humphrey Gil.
'ert sailed from England with the de- !
ign OF founding a colony on this con-
!nent, but his ship was wrecked and
IL on board persisted.
This brings us to more modern times.
II l179 the illustrious English nsvica,
IL, Capt. James Cook, was killed by
ne natives Of Hawaii, while he was Ell.
aged in the humane attempt to stop
Is men from firing on them. In 1905,
lc famous Scotch traveller, Mungo
ark, having explored the Niger and
'ached Timbuctoo, was attacked by
10 natives, near this mysterious city,
id, IN endeavoring to escape by swim.
ing, he and all his companions were
owned. This fact was ascertained bv
hatlve guide, three months afterwards,
1t 1t is was not known in England for
&c years later. In 1916, John Viii.
ms, an English missionary to the |
ew 1iebrldes, was killed and eaten by
@ natives. c
In ISL the three Englishmen, Den. l.
m, Audney and Clspperton, with
hers, explored the North of Africa. by ?
y OF Tripoli, the Great Desert Of J.
hara and the Kingdom of Bornou. a
ldney died of disease and privatiop. $
e others returned home, but Clapper. I
l. few months afterwards, died d