The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-07-07

Soous, was SlCual6Q, according to then
 German explorer, between the Lower
 zambesi and the Limpopo River.
 East of the Lupata Gorge, opposite
 Lake Lufumbo,' writes Dr. Peters in
 his book, i've found the old half
 fabulous district of Fura again, with its anci ent ruins which still showed
 plainly that they formed part of the
 old Semitic sphere of civilization.
 Around these ancient ruins, from
 which the figure of Baai looks down on us across thousands of years, lives
 the Makalanga nation, which, in it's
 worship of the Kabulu Kagoro, has preserved the old Semitic natural re-
 ligion until ,o-day, Here as thousands of years since, sacrifices are still made
 to Baal on the hills and heights, and fire worship is still practieed Simul-
 taneously the mining of the precious metal has gone on here from the time of the ancient pioneers, and still con- tinues."
 No explorer nowadays thinks of searching for Atlantis, the vast island supposed to be somewhere in the At lantic Ocean, but many expeditions in ancient times set out to discover it. Some have thought that the Canary islands are the remains of the sunken continent. An Egyptian priest issa id toh ave told Solon of its existence ly- ing pillars of Hercules in the ocean, and larger than sllbya and Asia Minor together. The legend of Atlantis runs that it was engulfed by the waves through an earthquake at the close of long contest which its inhabitants maintained against the Atlantians.
 For more than six centuries the Home of Gold" f" the land of the Azters of Mexico, was as much mystery as lost Atlantis, but that such place ac- tually existed was proved in 1900
 Somewhere--so ran the story-among the fastnesses of the Sierra Madre is 0 wonderful valley, small, inclosed in high, rocky walls; it can be reached by but single subterranean passage the entrance to which has often been sought, but never found. It is watered by a broad river, and in 1t are thou sands of birds of the most beautiful plumage, exquisite flowers, stately trees.
 A ledge of pure gold, thirty feet wide, crosses 1t end glistens in the sun like a great golden belt The stream runs over this ledge, swirling over and mur- muriug around blocks of the precious yellow metal as others do among peb- bles
 All this was long believed to be an Indian legend pure and simple. In the summer of 1900, however, a party of gold seekers stumbled accidentally up- on the valley in question. There could be no doubt about it. There were the passage, the lofty preci- pices, the river and the broad ledge of metal, only, unfortunately for the adventures, the latter proved not to be gold at all, but iron pyrites.
 Even the Garden of Eden has been The location of the Cradle of the Human Race" as it has been called, had been a standing puzzle with seographers for ages past, until it was discovered by Sir H. W. Seton Karr, the well known traveller md big game hunter.
 It was in his fifth expedition to So- while engaged one day in tracking lions, that the explorer made | his momentous discovery. He had | cached a long, low hill, about 100 miles rom the coast, in a southwesterly di- f ection from Berbera the western face ,f the hill forming the right bank of he Issutugan. Sir Henry Seton- Karr lad taken four days to march here with lis attendants and camels from Bull lar, his point of decentralization.
 Upion reaching the summit of the hill which commanded magnificent view f the country on every side, the trave- CT saw that it was surrounded by four .ivers as in Genesis description of the Earden of Eden. Not only did the de- icription tally, but the climate and physical conditions were in complete lccord with the whole volume of scien- fife speculation on the subject.
 In his geological examination of the ill Sir Henry Seton-Karr discovered | several flints, which Lord Avebury Sir John Evans, Prof. Gladstone and others nave pronounced to be the most an- dent yet discovered. Indeed, sufficient 'easons were deduced to satisfy geo. and scientitists that at last he garden in which Adam and Eve ived their life had actually been locat-