Hanno, or, The future of exploration

FUTURE OF EXPLORATION
Mayans who explored down through
Panama, came to Peru, turned over
across the Andes and discovered Manoa,
urged to it all by the desire for know¬
ledge ; there may have been Norse¬
men who left Red Eric’s land on the
St. Lawrence, voyaged down the
Mexican Gulf in the twelfth century,
and wandered through the Nahua
republics to the Pacific shore ; Bush¬
men of South Africa may once, in
ten generations, have produced some
anomalous son who set out through the
Kalahari and so northwards, by Congo
and the dank forests and the Great
Desert till he stood amazed on the
borders of Roman Numidea. But these
hypothetical adventurers left no records
with which the modern world is
familiar. Probably they left no records
at all.
Even had they done so the lands of
their explorations would still remain,
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