The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-07-02

thirty thousand words, for an EngliSl
missionary, the Rev. Thomas Bridges
has sent home by DR.. Cook a vocabular,
which he has compiled. They speak al
aggiutinative tongue, composed of verb
and nouns, whose relations Of time an,
place and 'f1oYs'' are determined by
great number of afixes and sufixes. Tn
nouns ERE accurately descriptive. TheTt
Is word for every kind of object. Fol
''hill," for instance, there are man!
words each applicable to only a hill Of {
certain kind. The word describes the OBJ
ject without resort to adjectives. but TIL
number makes the language a diff1cuit
one for the student
Shepherd invaders from the Soutf
American continent have settled in Terra
del Fuego and islands about. They ara
white men and mixtures OF the original
Patagonian red men with the whites.
They have conquered territory from the
aborigines, and as the Romans did in the
days of Romulus. they seize the women
OF the natives for their wives. DR.. Cook
has a picture of the two wives of a shep-
herd invader. each with her original
Feugan husbands 'knee-high" offspring
beside her. The husbands aforesaid had
been sent by the present possesser Of the
women to the happy hunting grounds,
where seal fat Is never scarce, where it s
always Antarctic summer, where the Ia
Dor Of hunting is mere sport and where
every man has a multitude Of wives. The
FUegan, The Ona excepted, is too poor
in this life to own more than one help
meet.
The strait which the Belgica discov-
cred will be named for the ship, Belgica
strait. 1t extends between the group Of
islands which former discoveries have
held to be the mainland and the country
first seen and landed upon by the Be!gica
expedition. The new land west Of the
strait will be named Dancoland, in honor
Of Emile Cameo, the Belgicas magneti-
clan, who died in the winter night and
was buried in $40 metres OF water under
the moving foe. It is snow-covered TO
the very edges of the high cliffs, which
border .Belgica strait, and shows no sign
Of human life, and, indeed, almost "a life
of whatever sort. A days debarkation
party would bring or shore perhaps
pocket full of gray moss and hchen. No
grazing animals could find, sustenance
there. The penguin and theIseal live on
the fish of the teeming sea. But in this
scarcity of animal life, strangely enough,
two kinds Of s2iders flourish in Danco-
land. They live. 1t IS to be presumed,
upon the three other varieties of insects
which the explorers found there.
The archipelago west Of the strait. hith-
erto misnamed Palmer Land, will be
mapped hereafter as the Palmer Archi-
pelago. One of the islands is named for
the sailor, Wencke, who was washed
overheard from the Belgica, .between
Staten Land and the South Shetlands.
Another island was named Brooklyn. In
honor Of DR.. Cooks home. A chart Of
the archipelago and. the coast of Dance
land was prpared by the Belgica's topog-
raphers. This achievement in discovery
Is especially a matter of pride to DR..
Cook. because he has a grudge against the
English explorers.
Lieutenant Wilkes, Of the United States
navy, the real discoverer Of the Antarctic
continent, whose shore he kept in sight
,or LOO miles, gave a map of that coast
o Sir James Ross. of the English expe-
lition, in 1850. The Engiishman sailed
,ver spot where Wilkes had left mark
% indicate that he was uncertain whether
and was there or not. For the BritiSher
hat was enough. He discredited Wilkes
discoveries altogether. and to this day the
Americans discoveries are not shown as
MS on the British charts. Palmer Land,
% called, was discovered about seventy
'ears ago. No one. so far as Is recorded.
,ver visited the place from then until last
'ear. The Belgica relegates Palmer Land
o an archipelago and adds another land
o the map.
The Belgica had another revenge upon
sle British, which evens up matters on
he land of Wilkes which Ross sailed
'ver. I'VE steamed quietly" reports DR..
,ook, lover that spot on the chart where |
he Brscoe Islands are supposed to be"
That Is the end of Briscoe, whom the |
British explorer, who reported these ISL |
Inds. expected to immortaliZe.
The Belgica did a notable piece Of work |
n making a survey of the ocean bed from |
he beginning of its expedition after leav- |
ng Staten Land until 1t arrived at Pun |
as Arenas. the southernmUst port of |
hill at was no work for a lady" said |
)r. Cook. in describing this task. The |
esscl would lie TO in a tempestuous SEA, |
n the voyage to the South Shetlands. |
umbling like a cask for the hour that |
he lead line would be running before |
ouching bottom. Then would follow a |
mig two hours OF hauling In the cecD |
ca lead. Under such conditions, n The /
nen sea, the lead was heaved 81 regular
rIc-vals and not only the depth but The |
,r,rerature at the bottom was taken.
The Belgica found that there wis 10 /
ackhone Or ridge on the sea lotion con-
Getting South America with the Antarctic
and. Near the ointment the sea is very
eep, from 5000 10 1000 n,eGres. An inter
sting table land or bank was found under
he sea between 20 and ~ degrees iau-
ude and 50 and l0S degrees OF longitude
his region, traversed By the icebou1d
;eigica, was sounded daily .tSle lead line
howing an almost uniform depth Of 40
,ctres. The region is to the westward
{ Graham Land.
Dr.. Cook finds the weather n Brook
m tolera5ly cool. From the high haiti
ldes 81 the south polar regions he t.av-
led through the tropics ii reach home.
I'll the Buffcn. on which he came from
10 de Janeiro. was not ready for him
hen ne arrived in the Brazilian ma;rcpo-
:. Il WAS terribly hot n RIO. and the
.octor suffered in health while :ae-e
lore than he did from all the hardsAips
: the polar winter.
The general health Of the party IVES
Nod throughout. except in the seventy