Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-06

lie AIldnClC CudI Iacellke PRONE Oh BRAZIL HOS
ing out into the sea. I CHANGED to be looking
in the wrong direction. That was the source
OF my dubiety, as it Is in so many cases. The
hike faced westward-as the excellently SIM
pie map on page IL shows you-biasing north
ward through Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Panama,
Mexico, and so northeast to New York itself.
Great walk that don't you think? 1t took
two years. Moreover it left but one of the
five who set out from the starting point. This.
Augusta Flores himself, who rounded the great
adventure by writing his account of it.
A young Harry Franck, or Lowell Thomas, or
other famous leader of this youngster in the
ways of high vagabonding. The pampaS to
negotiate, wide rivers to cross mountains to
climb, jungleS to meet or dodge strange ami
mails. unfamiliar peoples, changing ways of life,
another climate and other modes of being
then in zigZag trail toward the northeast to
the metropolis itself. No small enterprise for
grown men, seasoned to such demands upon
mind and body as an undertaking of this
ture certainly imposes.
An almost unbelievable story-true, neverthe-
less. One of The four boys was drowned cross
ing a wild river. One died of snake hi e. two
driven back by illness So to the lone
scout, Augusta Flores remained the task of see
ing the matter through, which he so heroically
did. Here Is adventure at its simplest and
best. thing to do, to be followed to its end
under the scout pledge. This pledge involves
the overcoming of every manner of difficulty
that may rise within the limits of the project
IN hand. To meet such obstacles implies
end Of resource, ingenuity grit standing by
and sticking to until, the deed accomplished
there are the immediate returns of self-sais-
faction in a stir of the blood, new
sharpening of the wits, q new looking around for
the next thing to be tackled and achieved
Here is astonishing adventure by a Boy Scout
that tribe of modern knight-errantry Here
Is the story told by the crusader himself. Well
told, too. Here is tribute to the great clan
brought together by Sir Baden Powell in one
OF the best schemes of education ever devised
Salute to all of them! Salute to Augusta Flores
for this overlapping personal adventure, brought
to such remarkable completion.
BOYS BOOK OF EXPLORATION: Stories
OF the Exploration Of the World. BY j.
Harris Gable. Charts by the author. Illus
trated. New York: E. P. Dutton Co
A LONG stretch from the caveman to Comdr
Bryd-from the early timorous puddlings
along near shore lines to a bold sailing
away into unknown regions at the far ends
of the earth. In between the two, thou
sands have dared the adventure with courage
unimaginable with endurance incredible with
success rare reward with failure a common
issue. And yet each of these failures along
with the occasional triumphs, contributed to
the building of the endless story of human
genius in irs drive to overcome distance, to knit
able have made record of these heroic battles
against space. These books picture some of the
greatest adventures ever let into print case
In point is the volume in hand. Just at the
right moment does it appear, this moment when
the chief concern of the human tribe appears
tas be that of going somewhere. The entire
world seems to be on the go. Wheels are spin
ming the highways. Sails are Swimming the
seas. AlrShipS are challenging the atmosphere
70 DO Its legitimate part in helping the wide
world TO go somewhere" And we are told
this miracle of movement for bringing every
remote corner into the open is hardly vet be-
gun good time to stop for a while to see
what has already been done for the enterprise
of exploration.
And here some of the great stories are The
chief OF them are here. The significant ones
Away back to that cave dweller does the record
OF beginnings CO. Long ages of tentative out
reaching, cautious overtureS toward that mon
strous thing, the sea. These first attempts be-
came in time, sort of jumping board from
which daring, and more daring, mariners leaped
on into the wide spaces of the unknown And
we read the stirring tales of the Viking sea-
tarer and marauder and diScoverer Touching
mere but few of the high points of this high
accounting, we come upon Marco Polo-the i'm
mortal-away in Cathay. Christopher Colum-
bus. Henry of Portugal Magellan trying to sail
round the earth-himsen falling his shin Sue
ceeding. Then come stories of exploration, ac-
companied by conquest. Spain in Mexico and
south America. To the explorer is added the
ploneersin later and more peaceful days And
in this period there are absorbing accounts of
our own country. Frenchman to the North,
trader and priest, making the Mississippi his
highway, opening it to its great present and
% vastly greater future. The pioneers of
the Oregon Trail join the big company And
so, In orderly fashion and most invigorating
spirit history marches here, through tragic
tales and glorious tales, right up to the present
hour, when Comdr. Byrd is in full possession
of the country by way of the sympathetic and
reclamation of all the people
first of his own people, and then of those the