The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-07-07
4 new COUNTRY -
IS WANTED.
DR.. Rivers, Explorer, Says the People
Have 0utgrown the Earth's Hab-
liable Area.

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lishad statement OF the English ex-
plorer. DR.. Rivers. that the population
| OF the earth has Qutgrown its present
accommodations and that newer and
larger quarters must be found for Its
inhabitants. Republics must be formed
and lands must be found for them.
Where viii the next republic be To-
| Gated?
With the population Of the earth on
the increase and with the old countries
populated beyond their comfortable liv-
Ing capacity. the matter of the situa-
ton Of a new republic becomes a ques-
ton Of interest.
True. the United States now furnishes
a home with room for all who apply at
its doors; but, for how long time will
II have sufficient area to accommo-
date all who would become its citizens
The Burghers settled the subject
years ago when they migrated to South
Africa and formed their republic. They
elected rulers, made laws. built up the
country and prospered.
Are all portions Of the earth 80 filled
up now that future settlements are i'm
possible: will those who want to get
away In the overflow of any country
find It impossible to select a spot which
shall be comfortable and fertile?
Hardly
There are explorers out all the time
looking for such land, and any hour
may bring tldings of their success.
Said DR., Rivers on the subject:
With an unexpiored area equal to
one-fifth of all the known land on this
globe, It can scarcely be claimed that
the work Of the explorer is finished.
Even in America-North and South
there are two millions OF square miles
Of which we know absolutely nothing.
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unexplored territory. In Africa there
are over six millions of square miles Of
unknown land to attract the adven-
turous traveller, and in the polar re-
sions there remain between nine and
ten millions still unmapped.
Surrounding the southern axis of the
earth. we are warranted in drawing the
coast line of a vast unknown continent
covering the greater part of the terri
tory lying within the Antarctic circle
Such lands as are now charted have
been sighted at great distance. and
the mapping is greatly in need of au-
identification. No one, or at least no
one in modern times, has passed q
whole year in the Antarctic, and such
observations as have been made have
been confined to the short summer
months.
80 little is known Of this vast terri
unknown, and, in many places, unap-
proachable, land may prove to be a
continent, which, with the outlying
islands, covers a region of eight mill
lion square miles, an area equal to one
sixth Of the entire land surface of the
globe-a continent as large as North
America.
Though the coast line of Australia
is pretty well known, and has been
alS t. N Ank w11O al
interior that has, SO far. baffied all at
tempt to cross 1t laterally. From south
to north 1t has been traversed, though
the trip was only made at the cost of
great suffering. f.
Africa will soon be an open book, II
exploration ID. the future keeps pace
with what has been accomplished in the
past. A great part OF the work has
been done by what might be called
amateur explorers-people who travel
for amusement and to add strange and
fierce wild beasts to their game score.
Frederick jackson, In command of
the expedition fitted out In England by
A. C. Harmsworth to seek the North
Pole by way of Franz Josef Land, was
long at work on this polar problem;
Nansen also aimed for the same point
by his own way, which was to drift
there in a specially designed ship, and
logical Survey, went to establish a new
route by the way of the west coast of
Ellesmere Land and Jones Sound.
For the exploration of the south
polar regions DR.. Frederick A. Cook, OF
Brooklyn, who was surgeon of Peary's
first and most successful expedition, de-
voted himself to raising the funds
necessary to At out two vessels to pro-
coed there, one Of which remained dur
ing an entire winter.
"Borchgrevink,s who, by jumping out
of his boat and wading ashore, claimed
to have earned the distinction of being
the first man to set his wet feet on the
south polar mainland, says that he will
accompany a British vessel that Is fit
ting out to bring load of peguin guano
from that desolate region next fall, and
devote what time Is allowed him to a
solution of the, great Antarctic problem.
But what do all these people expect
to find upon these unexplored landsY
ITO be sure. there are those who
claim that the Garden of Eden was To-
Gated at what Is now the North Pole,
and say that, owing to the fact that the
earth is f1attened at the poles, the sur
face Is SO much nearer the internal1
fires that the soil Is warm and the YER
lure luxuriant, and that there still exist
there the descendants OF some OF the
children OF Adam and Eve.
There was a. Captain Symmes, an
Englishman, who lived for some years
in Louisville, Ky. who had theory
that there was a greater depression
than the twelve miles which constitute
the diafe, ence between the polar and
the equatorial axes of the earth would
account for, or, In fact. that there was
a hole that ran directly through the
earth from pole to pole, and people
lived on the inside, ss well as upon the
crust of the earth. This was known os
'Symmes Hole
'Andree went to discover It,
There was once a man in one of the
Western towns in this country who had
a plan for tightening load by means
of gas that has never been applied to
polar travelling.
This Western thinker had an idea
that by making q double garment of
India rubber, one 70 at tightly to his
hold sufficient gas to take up the
greater part of ais weight. his natural
strength would cradle him TO travel
rapidly and easily. He had the suit
made ard put It on one night, as he
didn't want 20 excite the ridicuie that
would attend a failure. Down to the
gas works he went ard had his gar |
ment inflated unit; he looked some |
thing like a gigantic football
Then he started UP the road and |
found that the ordinary effort of wulk- |
ing would 5carry him along thirty or
forty feet at a step. and he had most
delightful AID exhi:Srating experience
he would run, and then his |
steps would be a hundred feet apart |
and a jump would lift him easily over |