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PROSPECTING FOR GOLD BY AEROPLANE. CANADIAN EXPLORERS WILL COVER 60,000 MILES.
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Tiny shacka in the midst of a vast, barren wasteland-that is the base of the Dominion Explorers as pictured in the upper photo. Captain Charles Sutton, right, is chief pilot of the adventuresome expedition and Jack Rogers, left, is head geulogist. Lower left are shown two of the party's cabin planea nosed into the special studs and held against the arctic winds by ice anchors,
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MYSTERY CITY.
MIDDLE OF KING solomon's MINES.
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There are in the heart of Rhodesia the ruins of great forgotten city which form one
of the profoundest archaeological mysteries of the nges and which are shortly to be explored by a brilliant English archacologist, Mies Gertrude Caton-Thompson.
These ruins (says the Evening Express), the crumbling temples and colossal fortifications of Zim- babwe, have been obstinately linked by legend, in the face. of scientific discouragement, with one of the great women of history, the Queen of Sheba, and her fabulously wealthy country,
Probably there is no topo graphical problem round which controversy has raged more fierce ly than the identity of that mythical Land of Ophir, whence came the unimaginable treasures which found their way to the courts of David and Solomon.
Rider Haggard has expressed the belief that the long-nosed Phoenecians gathered from the grey solitudes of Zimbabwe the gold which Solomon usd in the building of his temple, and experienced archacologists have subsequently claimed that they could prove scientifically that this belief was not a, myth, but his toric truth.,
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PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT.
desires to predict. In the first place, he requires the maximum observed reading on the given day and the corresponding read ings on each twenty-second day PREDICTIONS FOR ANY DATE back for 220 days, all of which
IN THE YEAR.
ho adds together. He makosa similar sum for the next preceding 220 days. In the second place he has worked out from his Investi- gallons back to 1794 two "con- stants" for cach day of the year, one of which is relevant to the first preceding period of 220, daya and the other to the second.
Is there conconled beneath the majestic caprice of the weather i Intont regularity as amenable to scientific discipline as the move ments of the heavenly bodica? That is a question an affirmative answer to which would confer its upon the whole of mankind permanent and incalculable bene- (anys a correspondent, of the Morning Post).
Herr Herrmann Brix, a Silesian engineer, is not only convinced that such a secret exists, but ho claims to have discovered the clues. He has devoted his whole lelaure during twenty years to the elaboration of a system of weather conditions with something ap proximating to mathematical pro- cision.
The system of Herr Brix, which Irresistibly recalls to the mind the numerical symbolism whereby an- elent philosophiers sought to inter- pret the harmonies of the universe. But, whereas Pythagoras' magic number was seven, that of Herr Brix is twenty-two. By a search- ing Investigation of the meteoro- logical reports of numerous Ger- man weather, stations back to the year 1794, he has found that the weather obeys strict and in- variable laws in recurrent cycles of twenty-two days.
Their chief opponent, an eminent archaeologist sent out to Rhodesia by the British Associn-is tion, came to the conclusion that Zimbabwe was comparatively a modern city.
His supporters palated out that in the few years that Zirababwe had been discovered its walls had been crumbling so quickly, that it that rate it would not have stood very long.
This explanation was not satin
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With the aid of the weather reports on, say, December 5th, he thereby enabled to calculate exactly what thof weather will be on December 27th, on December 6th, the weather for December 28th, and so forth. By taking his résult for December 27th, he can calculate the weather for January
18th, and by endless repetitions
of this process he could' theoreti enlly predict the weather for any given day in the Twenty-first
we
are accustomed to expect of eclipse forecasts.
factory. There remained extreme-Century with as much precision as ly puzzling features about these ruins, which suggested that there may be more truth in the legend than has been dreamt of.
African Elderado. When Europe was emerging from the middle-ages the Portu guese and Spanish explorers were constantly searching for a great and miraculous Empire in the heart of Africa. Monomotago, the legendary capital of this Empire, was speculatively inserted in their maps. It was an elusive, glitter-
sought and never found.
(By Hortense Saunders.) 10 these places to do the actual]"we are in communication by radio with Ottawa. We never see Now York. Jan. 12-Bardy prospecting. sourloughs, who musked
"Air hunting can be done the newspaper, but we get all the Yukon and Klondike trails would year around because the tops of news and the mining prices from Ret Honolulu the the rocks always are swept free Winnipeg, and we been staggered by have thought of taking along a ping of amow. Actual prospecting can and Los Angeles dance music in pong out to while away the be done only between May and the evening. Of course, we pick
fer sails at their diggings. November, when the weather up the stations around Newing Eldorado which they always And many gold-seeker who sufficiently temperate." nonchalantly braved the perilsį
York.
"We fly every day, and our m chinos are out in the coldest
"Dering the winter, the tem- A Year's Experience.
darted last Perature is between 40 and 60 of pouring rivers and rocky trails, The expedition blizzards am starvation. would year, and already has had one degrees below zero, and it has reached 60. However, the cold is have trembled at the ider of in-year at the base which was vading the fastenesses of the established at Tavane, about 1,000 very healthy and we never have
hal a casualty there. northland in fragile airplanes, nulles directly north of Winnipeg, Yet there things are just what considerably have Churchill, the Captain Charles Sation and last settlement.
This country is a wasteland of others. We have built apccial party of dying adventurers ar golog to do. Sutton, chief pilot, rock and snow with no vegetation, sheds for them so they always and about Aften other aviators All the neenssities for life have to have their engines covered and and geologists comprise the field be taken there. Now the party thus are ready for flight. When expedition of Dominion Ex-has seven sharks, built with not in use they have to be tied plorers, Ltd., a syndicate which is double walls to keep out the snow down with e anchors or he aretle winds eertally would carry hunting gold throughout the snow. and dampness."
Ten thousand tons of coal have them away. During the winter, covered stretches of Northern) Canada.
been taken up by boat, and gase-pontoons are removed and skis Sutton is in New York to buy line eaches have been established put on." additional airplanes turd supplies, at the various sab bases. Large
"Some
of the time we have
Game Is Searce, supplies of food, blankets, oilį Their only neighbours are the "There's gold in Cănudy" be slothing, and humber have been Eskimos who work for them and aald. "There are big deposits of provided.
will be used for labour when the gold in thore rocks under the The equipment also includes;actual mining bogins. SHOW. We expect to find mines three Fairchild planes, & traclor as profitable and maybe mor and a Ford car. This year they good hunting and fishing and extensive than those found in will add two more Fairchild cabin have fresh meat, but much of the Alaska. But the cold elimate and
monoplanes.
time we live on canned foods. the difficulty of transportation:
Sutton was a wartime Royal Having event, one year there, we have kept anyone from finding it.
Flying Corps pilot, has three Ger-know better what to provide for Aerial Geology.
man planes offelaly to bis erudit, this year. "Our plan is to cover the 60.000 and years of commercial flying "Last year, for instance, wo square miles at the top of Canada, since the war.
had only two packs of playing A subsidiary The explorers ure between Hindson Bay and Alaska,!
eards, and with nothing to do right under the pole in the Arctic of the Thayer Lindsley mining evenings but play bridge, the Circle, from the air. We will fly, group, a syndicate of Canadians spots seen wore off. This year, this whole country, with who have enormous capital and we shall have reveral packs, and expert geologists who can tell by are willing to put years of work we are alan, taking baseballs and the rock formations where the and millions of dollars into aerial bats and ping-pong outfits. gold may be hidden. All country gold rushing. that looks favourable will be
over
In Touch by Radla.;
"It probably fa as good An adventure as the world affords to- marked on maps and other planes Though miles from any human day, and we are having the time will take miners and engineers|habitation there," Sutton said, of our lives,”
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ANCIENT BANYAN TREE.
The above photograph is of an ancient banyan tree near Ping Loh, Kwangsi Province. Natives worship at this old beauty of nature, and long ago built the shrines and raised. the stone slabs seen under the tree.
SPEAKING TO THE FUTURE.
Was Zimbabwe the Monomotapo which they sought and the capital of the country over which the far-famed Prester John ruled?
Was the legend of Prester John. the mythical structure built round the original reports of the wealth and prosperity of the Land of Ophir? No one, of course, can any for certain, but the theory is intriguing.
The first explorers of Zimbabwe swore that it was the country of the Queen of Shoba. Ophir, it was pointed out in vain, had been identified as a port on the cost of Arabia.
They reconeiled themselves to this difficulty by stating that the Scriptures mentioned that gold came through Ophir from a land callo Havilah. And Havilah, they claimed to prove, was, the Rhodosia of Zimbabwe
Site of Paradise?
A Dutch minister, du Toit, went even further, writing a novel in Afrikaans to prove that Zimbabwe was part of the original site of Paradiso, and vorified this argu- ment by pointing out that the five rivers montioned in the Bible could be identified with the Zum- besi, the Niger, the Congo, the Nile, and one of twelve other alternatives, which all, he said, had their Fource in the same fruitful busin.
Approximate Accuracy.
In practice, howover, ha has not yet been able to bring his system to this singe of perfection, and the accuracy declines in proportion to the length of time. A fraction of a degree of temperature neglect- ed on the day on which he bases a given calculation
the for ahend will twenty-second day necessarily affect the result, and may do so to the extent of two degrees. This margin of error will be still greater for the next twenty-two day period, and so on. Actually, therefore, Herr Brix is content with approximate, no- curacy for a twenty-two day fore- cast based on observed weather reports. He nevertheless claims sufficient accuracy to be able to predict the general complexion of wonther over quite long the
He also requires the correspond.
prediction, and thus staris ing data for the, day preceding that on which he is basing hik off with eight data in all. Hp next finds the difference and the mean between each sum of readings and its relevant constant, and also the difference between each sum of readinge for the basic day and the corresponding sum for the pre- coding day.
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All these results then pass through a formidable series of mutual additions and subtractions, of which the final product is the maximum temperaturo the twenty-second day ahead of the basic day, Exactly the same applies to the minimum and 7 a.m., temperatures. When all three results are known, the rain- fall and the Wind velocity are also
known.
Oficial Test,
Herr Brix is at present negolint. ing with several Gorman, meteoro- logical stations for the purpose of having his system submitted to an official test over a nullablo period of time under agreed conditions. He claims that his margin of error for a twenty-two day forecast is negligibly small, and his system čertainly deserves
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The information which Herr Brix purports to supply in advance which the for the places to weather observations and caled- lations have reference Is the maximum and minimum tempera-— ture each day, the temperature at 7 a.m., the volume of rainfall, and the velocity of the wind, he rainfall and the wind he deduces automatically from the tempera ture forecasts. For the purpose of temperature predictions ho employs two acts of data which are fundamental.'
Predictions By Sum.. We will suppose that it is the maximum temperature which he babwe temple and you are over- whelmed with the awe-inspiring nature of the mystery.
You cross the red waters of the Ungashi River and climbs the slopes of the hills on which the fortress was situated 500ft. above
the valley. You notice that it is On only accessible on one side. the other there is a sheer drop of from 70 to 90 feet high.
But the more moderate suppor ter of this theory was satisfied with
Mysterious People, ascribing the origin of Zimbabwe
By the side you have entered to the yeara 1200-1100 B.C. whea
there is travelled
wall of massive thick the Queen of Sheba
ness, 30ft high. All approaches from that far-flung territory to
to it can be protected at every visit Solomon "in all his glory."
The massive ruins, they asserted, turn by ambuscades.
A single precarious night of in every inch of their structure, supported the argument that this steps leads down the great boul- ders to the bottom of the precipice. Hource wag, the
only of not
On top of the hill behind the Solomon's gold but also of the
walls of the fortress you find a THE KING'S VOICE FOR 100 great treasures possessed by the
YEARS HENCE.
Sabaen, the Tyrian, and Sidonian pinteas which was once adorned. nations, to which references in theby tall, monoliths and decorated
pillars, Scriptures are so frequent,
You look on a circular space immense which cement altar but which is to-day cracked and decrepit ruin. Who were the people who made all this?" you ask. "Where did they no mysteriously come from and whence did they even strangely disappear?
£75,000,000 in Gold,
It is not generally known that Leven gramophone records are to be
found in the British Museum, It is an undoubted fact, they But records of some old English concluded, as they looked into folk dances and of several Indian those disused" and "jungle-covered that dialects are housed there in addi-shafts round Zimbabwe, tion to several matrices of records. which famous people of to-day have made. The matrix is the im- pression from which records are flaken at the factory,
As a result of this innovation, the Voices of the King and Queen, the Prince of Wales, Lord Roberts, Caruno, Melba, Sir Ernest Shacklo- ton, Mr. Lloyd George, Mr. Win- ston Churchill, Lord Davidson of Lambeth, the late Lord Oxford, Mr. Bernard Shaw and other cefe- brities Can become known to future generations. The authors tien of the British Museum have undertaken not to take records from the matrices during the present generation.
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"What victims were sacrificed on the smooth surface of the altar and in the name of what god?" T
many millions of pounds of gold had been extracted by these ancient nations from the terri- toryong archaeologist making a conservative estimate of £75,000,- 000-during the period in which biblical references are made | Cold of Ophir,
The answer at the moment is ***Even their greatest opponente silence, but perhaps it may chance admitted that no part of the that some dramatle whisper will known world, India Included, come from the lips of Miss Caton- yielded such overwhelming evi- Thompson, who has already done. dence of extensive, continuous and | such brilliant work in Egypt, successful ancient gold-mining | Malta, and Fayum. operations us are found on every Perhaps, too, the honour may be hand in Rhodesia.
hers of filing in many gaps in You walk amongst the labyrin- the history of one of the most thine passages and the well-built illustrious members of her rex: granite walls of the great Zim-The Queen of Sheba.
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