Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1919 — EXPLORER’S LOT A HARD ONE [ARTICLE]

EXPLORER’S LOT A HARD ONE

Matter of Hard and Excessive Laboi Is That of Mapping Out a New Country. Hard and Incessant labor is the l.y of an explorer who travels through ar unknown country, as is shown by the example of William Junker, a Russiat explorer, who spent five years in en deavoring to trace the course of th< River Welle, which lies between the headwaters of the Nile and the Congo irt Africa, with a view to detennlnins the position of its watershed. During that time he traveled on foot ovei 4,000 miles through a wild country. When he was actually on the marc! Dr. Junker wore a coat designed bj himself, having numerous large pock ets especially arranged for the hand) use of his watch, compass, aneroid thermometer and notebooks. I ron one of the buttons of his coat hunj three pencils, one red, for marking th< route; one blue, for noting the riven and streams; and the third block, foi recording the time of starting ant baiting (so ns to keep a record of th< marching time and distance), togethei with all the more notable Incidents o 1 the day’s march. Every five minutes Dr. Junker madi a note of the direction he traveled, as well as noted every stream, everj mountain, every valley, and their estl mated dimensions, as well as full in formation about the tribes he met. It that way he secured a fund of Infor mation that was readily accepted bj geographers and scientists.