A Thwrony oF Exrionatiox Prom the arliest Times to the. Preser Day-Tiy " Brigadier-General Sexy Rents ok coe of" the" Ray The world has come to an end of one thing. There can be no more cers into trackless. territories.
lat is. the conclusion to which Sir Perey" Sykes comes and which has
ing. book, "iis qualifications are inspired him, to write this faseinatobvious, For the last forty years he as been an inveterate' traveller, mainly in the Middle East, and he ip not only an authority on Persia and central Axia, but he is al administrator of proved capacity war and peace, and he reveals in his preface that his interest in exploraion bevan when he was a boy of ten and sat at the feet of Samuel Baker of the Albert Nyanza. Exploration, 5 usually understood, hax now been ended by the travels of Messrs. Philby "ind Bertram Them: Arabia, By: those journeys last tracts of unknown territory unveiled to. the world, "The author designedly deals.' mainly with the adventures of pion ers, So in discussing the penetration St China and Tibet "he turns. Father Desideri rather than tothe later remarkable exploits of Facher Hue, "Desideri war not the litnt European who reached Ehasa, for fand later, "Grucber, "hast het from China and passed through the Suered City; but) Nideviv was the first European ive in Tibet for a number of years and the first to study the literature and the culture of the country, Sir Perey recalls the fantastic cere monies of marriage under the system "The bridegroom knows when the wedding isto bey but not the brides! Who. tries" to" wane, cries. of her future arringey and the defeat of all evil iit ig thee, loco of bute fans rie. iesperforms hint for unal. bat for all his ig ar iti, mono. beds And he it recognize) "ant "regards Berselt rix the Teztinnte wife of them The book starts with the early back" to 1100 B.C, when Tilath exploration which carney the yeader Pileser discovered the source of the 'Tigris and lott behind hin an me eriptlony which stands to-day, Ting' of his campaign, Then came Senmacherib an' Esarhaddon and 30 the "world's eyes became widened until, in 330 BE, Pythias of Mastitis dated the dangers of the Bi of Biscay and the island of Ushant fo sail up the English Channel to Kent, visiting on ix way the tin mines of Cornwall, the Cassiterides, which was all then known of that bar-Danie Tand which eventually, became the cradle of the British' Empire. And 0 the book goes on to Marco Polo and the grent Moslem explorer, whose journeys are too For Battuta came from, fanglets, crossed. from Afrien to Mecca, Mesopotamia, and eventually India,' He was unfortunate ing in India at the time when that cxeeasively cruel creature, Muham fad Tughiag, wax on the throne of Delhi. For Battutn was invited from Multan. "to. proceed to, the Delhi curt, a Journey which took him forty' day, and amongst his adven-tres war his attendance at the rite of xutice. 'Sir Perey. Sykes recalls the' fact that' this sturdy African explorer, inured as he was to count. Jean adventures, actually fainted at the awful sight. However, he was warmly welcomed by. the Sultan, whom he described as being "fondest making gifts and shedding blood.
Judge and treated him most gener ye "Sultan made the explorer a ously, giving him also the pleasant Sinectve of guardianship "of the SMauscleum of Qutb-ad-Din, And Battuta records ancther terrible scene in India when the Sultan had compelled the inhabitants of Del whom he disliked, to fence that city and proceed to Dawlatabad: feder, bat tome of tem bid th "The, majority complied ith the
Rouse. The salty ordered sen yeh, and his slaves found two. men Jn'the'streeta, one's cripple amd the thor blinds ite have orders that the Srlppie™ should. be" ting' from 8 mangonel and the blind man dragged rom Delhi to Dawlatabad." He fell to pistes on. the trid lov thet, Teached Bie tes. Tt was ths state that "we a Det lowe anal epis "Obviously the good graces of such Sultan were precarious:
Battota raided ae the court of thie monster for nearly eight sears remained in favour for a Th author of this book gives time, but curiosity, prompted a visit toe Shaykh who whi an acount of la actvtine bring 1918 and 1919 efforts. to stent for pect nearly oathed, "hie Jclevate the status of the College the rile of 'a hermit away his property f0 the poor, he of Hawa to. that of Uaivernit, task realized only after consider-Fecained the. royal, Hole and unescsing "labour. 'The Eppointed an embarsa volume contains an introduction bby Mr. Lawrence Judd, the present Governor" of the. Territory of Hawaii, and expressions of appre-ion' by Mr. Wallace R. Fartholomew Diaz, made his mark and Hingion, "the former Governor: Dr. D. Lo. Crawford and Dr. great Portuguese explorers of the the leat portant of Arihur L. Bean, the past and pre-TSth century. Vasco. da. Gama, ent Presidents" of the University Christopher Columbus, are duly Jot Hawaii; a5. well as correspond Drought into the story, and it may fence exchanged regarding. the pro-noted that the book is pleasantly fect, "There: are a and. pictures.
Captain Copk's voyages round the world, following on the Elizabethan cee of pi and contributed greatly to the intellectual development of the Paradise of the Pacifie—Wal.c,
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