Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 284, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1913 — Hints for Explorers. [ARTICLE]

Hints for Explorers.

At the recent anniversary meeting of the Royal Geographical Society, Major L. Darwin, the president, spoke of the meagerness of the territory now remaining to explorers. Besides the South Pole he said, there is Arabia, the map of which Is still largely composed of great blank spaces, and In Asia the bend of the Brahmaputra River, which flows in a remarkable course through the eastern and of the Himilaya range, Is drawn by guesswork in our atlases. But there are many places on the earth besides * those mentioned by Major Darwin yet" remaining to be explored. There are regions in South America, and how much do we know of what lies beyond the northern shores of North America? ’