Blind White Fish in Persia

One knows these modern travelers, these overgrown prefects and pseudo-scientific bores despatched by congregations of extinguished officials to see if sand dunes sing when snow is cold. Unlimited money, every kind of official influence support them; they penetrate the furthest recesses of the globs; and beyond ascertaining that sand dunes do sing and snow is cold,what do they observe to enlarge the human mind?