Expeditions

During the past fortnight explorers startled their native shores with tales that inspired many a wild surmise:

P: Baffin Island's unexplored west coast yielded to an expedition under direction of Publisher George Palmer Putnam, evidence of a great new mountain range that may yet cause the map of North America to be changed. Traces of a pre-Eskimo civilization (called by the explorers Tunic) pointed to a lost race.

P: From the far South Seas, a ship that had once under Scott pierced the vast whiteness of the Antarctic, brought back to England scientific minutiae on whales. Gained after a two-year expedition in perilous seas, such data may help preserve the monsters of the ocean from extinction at the hands of oil hunters. Whales are gay livers. They eat heartily of their favorite delicacy, an Antarctic crab known as prickly peter. They are far from monogamous.

P: Central Africa, west of the Congo River, was visited by a strange terror--Dr. James P. Chapin, associate curator of birds of the American Museum of Natural History. Little monkeys chattered and cried to one another in the treetops that the white-faced hunter had taken 2,500 lives out of feathery, furry bodies to stuff them with dead, hard matter. From the green lowlands, Dr. Chapin started up the side of a glacial mountain of the Ruwenzori Range. In sight of snow, 50 miles from the equator, his blackamoors, convinced that the strange whiteness was the touch of death, fled

P: From Canada, from the green teeming northern forests to Walton, N. Y., came well-named Robert Carver North, aged 12. Lecturing in a Methodist church, he showed pictures of streams far away under big strange trees, of mysterious mischievous animals, of great mountains, of wide unfamiliar lakes in which shone, with the regular rhythm of a clock, the black night sky or, in the daytime, the reflection of green hills. These were photographs which he had made when on an expedition, consisting of himself and one Indian guide, 1,250 miles into the wilderness of Canada.