Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-06-27
WASTE PLACES OF THE WORLD.
Northern Thlbet-The Sahara Desert Arctic and Antarctic Regions
 INeIE NnrL

New York Sun
 The Russian explorer Freievslsky said after his recent ,ouruey in northern
 Thibet that an enormous amount ot ani
 mal life was supported by the scanty herbage growing on these bleak. half. sterile plsius that form the highest plateau in the world some I0.OOU feet above ,he sea He said the wild ya..s there must number millions. and that & ful.- grown yak weighs frOm l.COO 10 1, ,sOO pounds
 Natures chemistry evolves these great masses of flesh from the poor herbage of a region so lofty that it's lakes are frozen over until nearly June though they are 60O miles nearer the equator than we are
 Explorers tell us that not only does animal life abound, but that man can live in some of the most desoiate parts of the globe It Is mistake 10 suppose that the Sahara desert n merely q useles sandy waste Much of it lacks not SO much cultivsble land as industrious hands to make the vast expanse Uf wilhered cases blossom again The Mussulman set known as tue Senouslans has for years been digging veiIs. irrIgAung the 'ar3 and turning many hund eds O. SarT=u acres fnfo garden. Twenty four ears a.o it planted its head. d.usrters in the desert near the western b,,rder of kgyot built reservoirs. begsL plantations erected convents. and now a population of S,UOJ people live at Jsrabub. where ihe n has been restored to fertility by their ,abors There are large areas in the sahara that need only rain or irrigation to cover them with venture. Through these regi us pass the caravan routes. along which the 5O.OUO camels engaged in the oaharan cOmmerca bear their burdens
 Mir. Anderson. the civll engineer who last year completed sixteen years Of eA- plorAtiOns in south Africa, between the Orange and Lsmbesi rivers. says that the rain that falls for a lew weeks every year in the great region known as the hAla- hars desert covers the 0ackened. venture less pain with sp.endid yegeiat on Game Is abundant there. especis y lions. leopardS and ostricnes sAd he has counted in this desert twenty-twO lions in a troop. and has seen z0O ostriches in one flock. Eeasts and birds find sustenanee in this region where only a few bushn3L hunters ne lar northeast of them on the semi-arid steppes of Aordoisn and Darfur millions of sheep and camels exist on the scsnIy psstursge of that desert region
 The earliest Arctic explorers found in the litt.e oprt-bergen srcnipelago-wnere. it Is beieyed. no human being had ever of reindeer upturning ghe snow with their hOof and noses to get at the lIchens on which they fed. Many rein deer live as far north as LittletOa isls.d. and seserai scOre of them We're killed by the HAyeS and olsris expeditions Musk oxen. or their traces. have been found along the snores of the great frozen sen ss far north @s explorers have sttaIned far north of the supposed i'm { it's of animal life. found trsoes Uf this /. qusdruped. which grows FsI On ! the tender shoos of the Ar.Tic wIIlOw and ploughs up the snow for moss ard ! lichenS
 If all parts of the earth the Antarctic | regions slOne are c, mparstiVely destitute | or fife. Few spec es of living Ih.nss In ! the vegetable or animal kingdom c..n en 1 iure the rigUr of the south pOisr region. ! No terrestrial qusdruped inhsbits the 1 and within the Antarctic circ.e. aad | whales and sea are the only mammals 1 enter is area Summer in the arc 1 .ic regions, with it's abundant life on Ia d 1 a.'d in the air and sea. presents an ami | mated and cheerful scene compared TitL 1 Lhe utter deSOlation that reigLs perpetu- ! ally m Antarctic ws.erA