Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-14
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health. AS to our representative, the well
known athlete and international Rugby
football player, E. D. Malone, he looks
crowd a smile of good-humored contentment
pervaded his honest and homely face (All
right, Mac, wait till get you aloneD
"When quiet had been restored and the
audience resumed their seats after the ova-
ton they had given to the travellers, the
chairman, the Duke of Durham, addressed
the meeting. He would not, he said, stand
for more than moment between that vast
assembly and the treat which lay before
it. 1t was not for him to anticipate what
Professor Summarize, who was the spokes-
man of the committee, had to say to them;
but it was common rumor that their expedl-
ton had been crowned by extraordinary sue
cess. (Applause.) Apparently the age of ro-
nance was not dead, and there was common
ground upon which the widest imaginings
of the novelist could meet the actual scien-
tific investigations of the searcher for truth.
He would only add before he sat down that
he rejoiced- and all of them would rejoice
that these gentlemen had returned safe and
sound from their difficult and dangerous
task; for it could not be denied that any
disaster to such an expedition would have
inflicted well nigh irreparable loss to the
cause of geological science. Great APP
plause, in which Professor Challenger was
observed to join.)
PROFESSOR SUMMERLEE'S rising
was the signal for another extraordinary
outbreak of enthusiasm, which broke out
again at intervals throughout his address.
That address will not be given TN ertenso
in these columns; for the reason that full
af no Of no
dition is being published as supplement,
from the pen of Our own special correspon-
dent. Some general indications will therefore
suffice. Having described the genesis of their
journey, and paid handsome tribute to his
friend Professor Challenger, coupled with an
apology for the incredulity with which his
assertions, now fully indicated, had been re-
ceived, he gave the actual course of their
journey, carefully Withholding such informa-
ton as would aid the public in any attempt
to locate this remarkable plateau. Having
described, in general terms, their course
from the main river up to the time that they
actually reached the base of the cliffs, he en-
thralled his hearers by his account of the
difficulties encountered by the expedition
in their repeated attempts to mount them,
and finally described how they succeeded in
their desperate endeavors, which cost the
lives of their two devoted halfbreeds.
This amazing reading of the affair was
the result of Summerlees endeavors to
avoid raising any questionable matter at
the meeting.)
Having conducted his audience in fancy
to the summit, and marooned them there by
reason of the fall of their bridge, the pro-
fessor proceeded to describe both the hor-
rors and the attractions of that remarkable
land. OF personal adventures he said little;
but laid stress upon the rich harvest reaped
by science in the observations of the won
derful beast, bird, insect, and plant life of
the plateau. Peculiarly rich in the Cole
optera and in the Lepidoptera, forty-six new
species of the one and ninety-four of the
other had been secured in the course of a
few weeks.
at was, however, in the larger animals,
and especially in the larger animals supposed
to have been long extinct, that the interest
of the public was naturally centered. Of
these he was able to give goodly list; but
had little doubt that it would be largely ex-
tended when the place had been more thoIe
oughly investigated. He and his cofh.
panions had seen at least dozen creatures,
most of them at distance, which CORE
spondcd with nothing at present known to
science. These would in time be duly CLASH
fed and examined He instanced a snake
the cast skin of which, deep purple in color,
was ifty-one feet in length, and mentioned
a white crea tire c11DDOcad IN he mammalian