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Expeditions are not what they used to be. Sail to the ice-studded shores of Greenland and you can still telephone your wife by wireless. Trek to the heart of Africa and you will not leave the automobile behind you; in fact, a Cape-to-Cairo airplane may pass overhead any day. Last month the British press announced the death of Charles St. John, 86, last white survivor of Missionary David Livingstone's seven-year expedition to find the watershed between Lake Nyasa and Lake Tanganyika, central Africa (1866-73). Concurrently there were reports of modern expeditions, coming...
MacMillan. Home from Labrador and Greenland, with plans for going back again to spend five years, came Explorer Donald B. MacMillan last week. He had been investigating ruins and legends problematically indicative of Norse settlements in America a thousand years ago. Maine coastal towns turned out to welcome their state's special hero. The Field Museum of Chicago rejoiced at the prospect of receiving a 1,500-pound walrus carcass and other specimens...
...prior to the Alcock-Brown flight, Pilot Harry Hawker and Lieut. MacKenzie Grieve made a bid for the Northcliffe money in a single-motored plane, but pitched into the sea short of Ireland, being rescued by a Danish tramp-steamer. The U. S. Army globe-fliers (1924) stopped at Greenland en route from Scotland. Dirigibles to cross the Atlantic without a stop: the R34 (British), 1919; the ZR3 (Los Angeles...
...Virginian, Lieut.-Commander Richard E. Byrd U. S. N., backed by Vincent Astor, Edsel Ford, John D. Rockefeller Jr. and others, rested after an historic 1,600-mile round-trip flight to the Pole, and laid out his next course-to wing westward from an advance base on north Greenland and search for unknown land where Explorers Peary and MacMillan each thought they descried it on different occasions years ago. Most formidable and promising of all, the dirigible Norge lurked in her Spitzbergen shed ready to nose forth and explore earth's last big "blind spot" from Spitzbergen clear...
...Eric the Red; Icelandic chief and settler of Greenland; also called "Leif the Lucky." Blown out of his course while returning from Norway in 1000 A. D. to Christianize Greenland, he reached a far-western land where "self-sown" wheat grew, and vines. He called it Vineland, later exploring it, wintering there-in southern Nova Scotia...