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tory will be entirely stripped of its 

 rubber forests. I found that eaucho is 

 selling on these far upper rivers for 20 

 to 22 soles ($10 to $11) per arroba of 

 32 pounds." 



Recently the French government 

 started an industrial school in the Sudan 



to teach the natives the best methods for 

 rubber gathering. The school has 

 proved a success, as the natives soon 

 realized that the practical suggestions 

 they obtained at the school meant a 

 better quality of rubber and hence 

 greater profit to them. 



THE ZIEGLER POLAR EXPEDITION 



THE latest news of the Ziegler 

 Polar Expedition is contained 

 in a letter to Mr Ziegler, 

 written by Commander Fiala ten days 

 after leaving Vardo, Norway, and re- 

 ceived by Mr Ziegler in New York 

 the later part of September. As far 

 south as 75 north latitude the ex- 

 pedition came upon a compact barrier 



of ice, which they followed to within 

 sight of Nova Zembla without finding' 

 an open lead. At the time of writ- 

 ing they were returning toward the 

 west, intending to try and force a way 

 northward through the ice barrier be- 

 tween the 46th and 47th parallels of 

 east longitude. The ice conditions were 

 thus exceedingly unfavorable at the 



Photo by W. S. Champ 

 Edward Haven, First Officer 



W. J. Peters, Captain Coffin Commander Anthony Fiala 



Representative of the National Geographic Society, Chief Scientific Staffani Second in Command 

 H. P. Hartt, Chief Knsrineer 



