Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-04-12
MYSTERY ISLAND,
Some Of the Worlds Black s,,,
That Defy White Men.
HAVE never BEEN EXpl npr,
Their lnhospitabIe Shores Or Ga
Natives Bar the Way to Thos. W"
Would Learn Their secrets-e,.. :,
Expeditions to Tiburon.

Wou'o .ea'" '"e'T oecrets-Eah !.
Expeditions to Tiburon.
Leaving out of consideration tho ~,
unexplored portions Of the arcti. wy
antarctic regions-and there Ara
lions of square miles of them-,ts
are many spots on this little ploh..
ours that have yet to become fam,,N
with the face Of white man ona'a
smile or frown upon the fearloss
hardy pathfinder.
New Guinea is one of the faw
tries that still present untroddon s.'s
for the explorer, but there are q NV
Der Of islands that remain myston.
the world at large and that will n,..'
bly, so remain for many years 70 cos'
One Of these isles of mystery !, !
buron island. where not SO long nm
explorer met his fate. His pams s.
Wayne. and he is said to have hae,.
clever mining expert.
Wayne went across to Tibumo !.
October. and not trace has since No.
seen Of him. nor is 1t likely that Il
fate will ever be known.
He was warned of the dangers a..
were before him. In spite of oAe,, !
double pay he could not get son Z
accompany him, so he crossed Fam,
passage alone and, like all Others u.
have preceded him. has never con.
back.
Tiburon is no lonely island in sa,,.
Melanesia. 1t lies in the gulf of oss
fornia. separated from the Me,Is,
mainland by only a few miles Of q
water.
Yet it remains one of the voras,
black spots. 1t has never yet been 4
plored by white men. Its only iuhk
itants are tribe of Indians who an.
ed with bows and arrows dippsd 4
some unknown but deadly poiSr
shoot down al! who try to land
The expedition Of 1879 vanished Inn
the interior and was never seen apsh
and the same fate befell the pary
headed by Professor MILES in 1904
There Is only one other island ip al
the world which can match Tibmm
and that Is Malaysia In the Solomon
Match it-that Is. in the way Of at
agery. And even In Malayta thenan
white men on the coast Valuable
plantations of cocoanuts and other
tropical produce have been planted %
the shores Of Malayta. but inland Is
mountainous country covered With
thick bush and inhabited by deru
tribes of cannibals.
Gold Is believed to exist in The b
terror Of Malnyta. and more than oa
expedition has been organized to seari
for the precious metal. But the busA
men, who steal noiselessly as serpent
through the tropical forest, have wiped
out every one OF the explorers aa
their smoke dried heads decorate The
dark temples in the central mountaln
Other islands there are which are
impregnable as Tiburon and Maaya
but for different reasons. One SUCH
Tromelin. lonely spot OF land tnIV
miles north Of Mauritius. 1t Is @
rounded by a terrific rampant OF cofa
which is fully $50 yards wide. Ana
out on any side of the island the u
is from 10000 to $4,000 feet deep I'D
surf. which always breaks on "
rocky fence of this submarine mon
tain top, makes landing pracuel4
impossible.
Yet it was here that in 1851 a fleu
transport was wrecked. and NV =
vivors out of over 800 aboard !
ashore alive. OF these. seven, all u's
women, were rescued in the year ~
having by some amazing miracle y
life in themselves for a space u
teen months, with no food Dull ~
fish and no drink but brackisn "apa
In the year 1907 that famous ".
gator, Henry Hudson. reported 'ps
istence of a rock island 3Oo m'e' ~, =,
Of Greenland. 1t was named jan y
en-. That island was never seen as'
until the year 1860, when pa's
English people. among WHO'LL ~
Lord Dufferin. caught a glimpse " Il
Then II vanished for another "
years, to be seen once more ~
1910, by the tourists aboard 'ns''
ing liner Oceana. 4
No one has ever set 1901 W.
Mayen. No one is ever Likely W.
no navigator would Willingly apr1
1t. It is the center of the thicRes' N v
on the surface of this planet anu ~.
one years end to another u'0''
mains totally invisible. ~. ~
Bouvet island. in the antaTu1, !. i
most equally inaccessible .;.h 4
summit Of a dead volcano wu IN
steeply from immensely oeep trs
and 1t has been sighted op'
since its discovery in 1852 .st2
Once and once only has man l,, Sc . :
upon It. A boat from the ds'h snt b
ploring ship valdivia landeo, ,osdlk
people found exploration 'I p Il n
The rocky sides were not onv .. M
palling steepness, but they w. m,tt
ally coated with smooth 'cs, .,hIlt>
climbing a matter OF 1mpo''
Parsons Weekly.
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