Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-04-07
TROGLODYTEs IN
SAHARA DESERT.
Cave Dwellers in Only In
explored Portion Of
Earth Left

tho srrf3te pf our terrestrial globe /
continue fo .ompel explorers 20 fare F.
forth into the unknown The North |
Pole has been reached bat an eVpedi-
alton now goes 10 find and map
Croker Land a new body glimpsed
by Taary on hts northVard course.
The explorer who have floated down
rho Amazon in boats and who have
ono their here and there into the
jungle along the banks ~ that
miehty stream. now are being follow
"a b ythe railroad surveyors who
fill let modern civilization AMI
transportation into the middle ~ she
South American continent Tn our
own continent men are sim striving
10 conquer unclimbcd mountain
peaks. till diving into tho midst of
traciless northern forests. stii cooke
ING ont every little unknown .Ili
until Boz tho end every square milo
VIII be known
The frozen polar caps have Fnr.
rendered tho last 90 their i.c.hoUd
secrets. tho salt seas long ago have
Welded 20 the charts their every path
and by-way the pine forests of can
ada. the rubber forests Of rraslL and
mahogany forests Of me Congo arc
known TO geography and are exploit
cd OF commerce
Only the desert. the arid and the
all but llfeless desert. the mys'ori-
Gus and the terrible desert only The
desert still remains unconqucrod and
unmapped only the desert nov chal.
lenges the hardihood OF the explorer
and defies the curiosity of the roor
raphcr
The southern and the more arid
portion Of our own American loscri
most Of e.. Of course. living IN McNIrO.
still Is @ terra incoRnlto to the white
man The del.rhtful account Of %
comparatiycly modest journey into
This dry land recorded by william
7 Hornaday. has excited the clrio.
iiv Of the world and now Kermit
Roosevelt knowing Africa IS about
o. undertake journey into this far
more dangerous and far more deadly
land
The now republic of China guarln
tees equal rights 10 Chinese. Man
chus MoucolIans and Thibetanf. but
neither tho Chinese themselves nor
the rest az the world. know much Of
Mongolia or Thibet Most of those
two countries belong 10 the desert,
and although thcv have been inhab.
Ned since the time when the mem
prv ~ man runncfh not 10 the con-
trarv the outside world is to them /,
sealed book. and they 10 the world
an uncuessod riddle The great des-
cri Of Cobb that Is partly in China.
partly n Nanchuria, partly in Mon
gOlia and partly In Siberia. h. trav-
ersed by the oldest transportation
Hines In cNisteEce. II has a caravan
route over which milk. tea and silk
laden clwcls have Travelled toward
Europe for these 5000 Years. and
vet from the time when kublai Khan
macadamilod the road until the time
when the Russian railroad paraly2ed
II hy the competition Of steam. no
ono Of the merchants who travelled
over IL turned either 10 the right or
"a the left 10 tell Europe and the
Occidont of the wonders or the ter
rors Of that unknown land
But tho greatest Ut an the deserts.
widest In oVpanse. drycst In air most
nearly lIfoloss. an ocean of shifting
sand u.fh only hero and there a
a'm.'rorn1 island. is che great Sac
nara
ir1 SEP the Sahara rs tho finest Of
on. rraHf deserts Of which Occidental
civilization hHs known From the
smallest dawn OF historical memory
- .a- Deco, inhabited. and set g. is
fN Unknown Tho National Geo
e"r.I. Society ir Washington TO-
H.''r listened with thrilling interest
90 fho .fprr of Frank Edward john
srr 1r authority on everything per
Iau.H. fo Northern Africa who has
hHf recently returned from an OK
petition into Southern Tun'sia whore
tn visited nls's iH Tho desert 20 which
ro man OF ans Twins race aaf ever
gone
'r Johnson went to am tho viz
h.'s and towns of the saraha frog
Io'sics Those caye.dWeliors. burs
r1H.ng men. are believed 20 be the
'..rsf pure race still inhabltinr their
'rlg.na. home % be- found In tho
world Existing European insrrip-
nr1s ana WRITINGS tell OF these same
people living IN practically the same
fashion Boz This same country In these
Fam" caves 1000 years acc. More
ta' f1Ir centuries before the be-
siif "r of ba Christian era. Horood-
otu. Doe Father OF History. heard IN
Eg' of this then ardent -lca. and
ne G. r.el their habits. The Ro-
man historian s.'..t was gent into
Afriff and r#.Hrf.1 these Yeopfa "a.
among 'fa ua. ancient OF races
These clva-INeIlue troeloluc.
have been forooIy Jealous of thoi.
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