The daily Alaskan., 1914-05-28
MYSTERY ISLANDS
Some of the Worlds Black Spots
 That Defy White Men.
HAVE NEVER BEEN EXPLORED,

Would Learn Their SOoratD-Futo o9 ! Expeditions to TiburOn.
 Leaving out of consideration tho stiil uucxplored portions of the arctic and antarctic reglous-and there are mil l Hons of square miles of them-theDe . are many spots on this little globe of ours that have yet to become familiar with tine face of a white man and to ] smile or frown upon the fearless and hardy pathfinder.
 New Guinea Is one of the few cOun- tries that still present Untodden fields l for the explorer, but there are a num- ! ber of islands that remain a mystery to tle world at large and that will proba- l bly, so remain for many years to come
 Oue of these isles Of mystery Is IT, . burou island. where not so long ago on . explorer met his fate. His name was . Wayne, and he is said to have been . clever mining expert
 1 Wayne went across to TiburOn in . October. and not a trace has since been . seen of him. nor is It likely thut hL5 fate will ever be known.
 He was warned of the dangers that . were before him In spite Of offers Of double raY he could not get a soul to accompany him, so he crossed Hell's . passage atone and. like all others who have preceded htH has never come . back
 l TinHrau is mo IoucIy Island in savage . NrHau~.a It lies in the gulf of Call . fog.". separated from the Mexican . un.urua. by only a few miles Of salt water
 Yet 1t remains one of the worlds . black suu.s 1t has never yet been eZ- pIared Uy white men Its Ouly inhab- . tauts are tribe Of Indians who, arm pi with bows and arrows dipped in some unknown but deadly poison, 1 shoot down alI who try to land. . The expedition of 1879 vanished into tlr interior aud was never seen again, anI the same fate UcfeIl the party headed by Professor Nlillies in 1904.
 There IS only one other island in all the world which can match TiburOn, and that is MaIayta in the SOIomOnG
 Match it-that Is. ln the way Ot say agory And even in M0luyta there are white men on the coast Valuable plantations of cOcoanuts and other tropical produce have been planted Ou the shores of MaIayta, but inland is a mountainous country covered with thick bush and inhabited by fierce ! tribes of cannibals.
 Gold Is believed to exist in the 10. tortor of Malayta. and more than one . expedition has been organized to search for the precious metal. But the bush. men. who steal uOiSelessly as serpents l through the tropical forest, have wiped out every one of the explorers, and their smoke dried heads decorate the dark temples in the central mountains, Other islands there are which are al imDvcguaL.e as TlbuUon and Malaytnt but for different reasons. One such ia l Tr9melin. a lonely spot of land thirty miles north Of Mauitius. IE is sur rounded by terrific rampant of coral which is fully lJO yards wide. A mile ont on any side of the Island the seq Is from 10000 to l2OOO feet deep, The surf. which always breaks on the rocky feuce of this submarine noun . thin top. makes landing practically impossible.
 let it was here that in 1761 French l. . transport was wrecked, and no sur vi~ors out of over 500 aboard BoJ I ashore alive Of these, seven, all blacE women. were rescued in the year 11I8 harfug by some amazing miracle EepJ life in themselves for a space Of hr
 fcou months. with no food but shell P fish and no drink but bracklsh wateE' in the year lGO7 that famous navF
 cator. Henry Hudson, reported the eT istrnce of a rock island 800 miles ea8I of Greenland. It was named Jan May
 on. That island was never seen agar
 rnftl the year 1860, when a party oi
 Erg,ish people. among whom wal Lor1 DuGerin, caught a glimpse Of iL
 Then it vanished for another hftJ
 years. 10 be seen once more in July
 1910 by the tourists aboard the yacht ing liner Oceana.
 No one has ever set foot on Jan . Maven. No one Is ever likely to- fol
 no navigator would willingly approach
 it. t is the center of the thlckest fogl
 on the surface of this planet, and from one years end to another usually TO mains totally invisible.
 B9uyet island. in the antarctic, is al
 most equally inaccessible. It is the
 summit of a dead volcano, which rises D stccDlv from immensely deep water and it has been sighted only twice since it's discovery in 1739.
 Once and once only has man set rooI
 mon ft 4 boat from the German eE s nIo7inz ship VaIdIvia landed, but thG , neoDls found exploration impossible < The rocky sides were not only of ap . raI9fng steepness, but they were liter < anv coated with smooth ice, making E climbing a matter of impOssibiHty.- 2 PparsOu's Weekly