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certificate that it was the initial point 

 of the two commissioners; and to pre- 

 vent the possibility of misconstruction, 

 an agreement in writing was entered 

 into with Mr. Salazar, and our signa- 

 tures attested by witnesses, showing that 

 the map was only that of the boundary 

 agreed upon by the two commissioners, 

 and nothing else. 



" This course, while it permitted me 

 to obey a specific order in writing from 

 a superior, left the Government free to 

 act, and repudiate the agreement by the 

 two commissioners, as it subsequently 

 did." 



As the line on the Disturnell map 

 delimiting the southern boundary of 

 the United States under the Treaty of 

 1848 is identical with the northern 

 boundary of the territory purchased in 

 1853, the conference next arrived at 

 the point of considering 



THE GADSDEN PURCHASE 



An examination of the treaties, of the 

 report of Major W. H. Emory, already 



referred to and quoted, and other evi- 

 dence, together with a .study of the treaty 

 map, developed the fact that the repu- 

 diated line agreed to by one of the United 

 States commissioners, Mr. J. R. Bart- 

 lett, and the Mexican commissioner. 

 General Conde, seems to have been 

 adopted by the General Land Office, 

 though after having been run only one 

 and one-half degrees west from the point 

 of beginning, about 38 miles north of 

 Paso, the survey was abandoned and the 

 line repudiated b}^ the Government of 

 the United States. The line indicated 

 by the treaty or Disturnell map begins 

 at a point about eight miles north of 

 Paso or El Paso, runs west three degrees 

 on a parallel, and thence north on a me- 

 ridian to the first branch of the Gila 

 River. This line was adopted by the 

 conference as the eastern part of the 

 northern boundary of the Gadsden Pur- 

 cha.se. The conclusion was reached after 

 consideration of Mr. Bartlett's claims, 

 Major Emory's report, the action of the 

 Government, and the treaty map. 



THE GERMAN SOUTH POLAR EXPEDITION 



Bv Dr. Georg Kollm, Editor and Secretary of the 

 Geographical Society at Berlin 



THE object of the German Ant- 

 arctic expedition is the scien- 

 tific exploration of the South 

 Polar regions, particularh^ on its Indo- 

 Atlantic side. 



In pursuance of this object, it left 

 Germany on the nth of August, 1901, 

 and is proceeding to Three Island Har- 

 bor, Royal Sound, in the Kerguelen 

 Islands, where a base station' will be es- 

 tablished. In December, 1901, it is ex- 

 pected that the expedition will be ready 

 for its real work of exploration and will 

 push on toward the south as far as prac- 



ticable. Should land be reached, a sta- 

 tion will be founded and maintained for 

 a year and the ship wintered there. 

 Whether any later attempt to push still 

 farther south will be made is not yet de- 

 termined. It will not, at all events, be 

 undertaken unless the conditions should 

 prove particularly favorable. 



The expedition has general orders to 

 remain until its tasks are satisfactorily 

 executed, but in any case not to remain 

 beyond June, 1904, at which date it 

 must report at some harbor in commu- 

 nication with home. Should no news 



