Penguins literally swarm in Antarctic regions, occupying every available space near the sea 



with the journeys of Amundsen and Scott will give us continuous traverse 

 section of the Antarctic continent, and then the filhng in of the remaining 

 unknown interior and circumference of that great region. The German 

 expedition under Lieutenant Filchner and the Austrahan expedition under 

 Dr. Mawson may be counted upon to make extensive inroads upon this 

 terra incognita. But there will still be ample work left for an Antarctic 

 expedition from the United States, which I earnestly hope may materialize, 

 as a matter of national duty, privilege, prestige and morale. 



Turning to the north polar regions with the attainment of the Pole 

 effected, there remain two very interesting prol)lems — namely, the explo- 

 ration of Crocker Land and penetration of that renuiining large unknown 

 area lying between the North Pole and Bering Strait, and second, the 

 crossing of Greenland at its widest part near the seventy-eighth parallel 

 from Whale Sound to (ape Bismark. 



As I think of the possibilities of the first, I can hardly restrain my 

 enthusiasm and I long for just enough of that fabled fountain of youth to 

 wash away some twenty years. I can hear the eager yelping of the dogs, 

 the shouting of the drivers and the forward rushing of the sledges, as after 

 days of weary travel across the ragged sea ice, every man and dog spurts 

 for the shore of that untrodden land lying a few yards ahead in the brilliant 

 Arctic sunlight. 



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