The morning journal-courier., 1908-07-25
EXPLORATIONS SOON
Vast Areas of the Earth's Sur face Yet to Be Ex-
 plored.
SOME PARTS OF AMERICA
Plenty Still to Be Done fin This Line, in Spite of Popular Notion to
 the Contrary.

There is still plenty of work for ex- discoveries effected during he second half of the nineteenth century, vast portions of this globe have still to dis close their secrets And it must be remembered that the hee-journey which Stanley makes across Africa or Burton through Brazil really leaves those countries practically as undiscovered as before the journey was made.
 In fact, 1t may be said that while the courses of the great African riv- CTS and of the equatorial lakes were traced more or less accura. fly by Bur ton, Spoke, Baker, and the rest of that galaxy of Victorian explorers, otherwise the dark plaees of the world remain pretty well as they have been since the dawn of planetary life. That popular opinion should hold otherwise is due to conspiracy Of |. D-makers. Examine my old map of a century ago Turn 'o a map Of Africa and you will see that the Mig CT, which really makes bend at right angles to itself, so that It's whole course sweeps in I seni-cirele round the west coast of Africa, IS brazenly depicted as flowing straight across the continent, and joining the great lakes thousands of miles from it's actual source.
 The same effrontery Is manifested | 4 1.,s 4 CYt, la sH IL. nent," Is scarcely winter han before 1t was divided among the powers of Europe. In fact, old Portuguese maps of three centuries ago display with passable accuracy the intrl lte system of eautoral lakes which we're forgot ten and not shown on maps of the ear ly nineteenth century. West of tho Soudan are vast negro kingdoms civilized by the rapidity spreading Mo- 1 hammedanism of the present day, manufacturing their own cloth and showing evidences of considerable civil development, but these are only rumor to the officials If the Euro poan colonies which border them 1 And even in countries such as the ] Transvaal--evenl in Cape Colony itself are regions which no waite man has penetrated, says IIarper's Weekly.
 Egypt again, which shows so grave 1 ly upon the map in British red, Is real 1 ly tiny strip of terrotry some thirty miles in width on either side of which lies unknown desert haunted by preda- tory tribes The vast territory of sand and stone which stretches from the Atlantic through the Sahara and thence into Arabia, the home of the Bedouins, who conquered all Northern Africa, with Algeria, Morocco, Spain, Portugal, and half of France, and may do so again, is still as solitary and remote as in the earliest times when Abraham set forth from Babylon.
 In Europe, little or nothing is known of Albania, Montenegro, and the mountainous districts of the Balk- ans. In Asia, the whole northern por- ton of Siberia is uneXplored The northeast passage has been made less than half dozen times, yet the north coast of Siberia is glaringly pre- sented upon the maps Is though its conngurations had been surveyed by careful geodesy outside the railroad and the course of the streams, the whole of Siberia is an unknown for est and swamp. The desert which embraces one-third of Central Asia Is practically uneXplored. Civilization unknown to us may yet ID. found Sven Hedin, the Swedish explorer has already discovered evidences of such among the monaster'os of the Buddhist monks, from wai n he has procured manuscripts and records whose existence was unsuspected.
 Southward still is the vast tableland