Illustrations

The Great Rainbow Natural Bridge of Southern UtahFrontispiece

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Map of Islands of the PacificFacing 1

Mohave Desert, California. Buzzards' Roost6

Gila monsters9

A giant cactus in Arizona12

The Roosevelt Dam, Arizona, showing south bridge and spillway17

Shoshone Project, Wyoming25

The Grand Canyon of the Colorado29

Grand View Trail33

The Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, looking down canyon from Grand Point37

The Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Mammoth Hot Springs, Summit Pools45

The Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Beehive Geyser47

The Brontosaurus53

The Allosaurus55

Twenty mule borax team61

The Oroya Railroad, Peru, showing four sections of the road73

Llamas resting77

Silver-smelting works at Cassapalca, on the Oroya Railroad, Peru, 13,600 feet high79

Fishing for sturgeon through the ice of the Ural River. Catching the material for caviare83

Gathering salt at the mouth of the Ural River87

Driving over the tundra in winter91

Train on the steppes of Russia95

Dunkar Spiti, Himalaya Mountains, India99

The yak not only serves as a beast of burden, but furnishes milk, butter, and meat103

Khaibar Pass, the gateway to India107

A group of Arabs with their dromedaries111

On the sands of the desert117

A caravan crossing the desert on the road to Jaffa125

Peary's ship, the Roosevelt137

Commander Robert E. Peary and three of his eskimo dogs on the Roosevelt141

Musk ox144

An antarctic summer scene149

The penguin defies the cold153

Street in Reykjavik, Iceland163

North Cape, Iceland167

Stone igloos on the bleak coast of Greenland171

A large iceberg173

A group of Eskimos in south Greenland174

The Straits of Magellan. Cape Pilar is the extreme western end177

Fuegians179

The Everglades of Florida184

Group of Seminole Indians in the Everglades of Florida187

The Devil's Slide, Weber Canyon, Utah191

Witch Rocks, near Echo Canyon, Utah193

This strong and impregnable place is the Rock of Gibraltar, and the city nestling at its base, Gibraltar201

Landing-place for commerce on the Caspian Sea209

Open workings of the diamond mine, Kimberley219

Sorting gravel for diamonds in the Kimberley Mine223

A Malay girl229

A Malay boy231

A giant fig-tree, 140 feet in circumference235

A mother kangaroo with a young kangaroo in her pocket237

An Australian emeu239

Homestead and station in Young District, Australia243

The Great Barrier Reef of Australia, the most remarkable animal structure in the world247

Melbourne is the largest city of australia and contains nearly half a million people257

Maori pa, or village263

The Petrifying Geyser, New Zealand265

Native canoe, Fiji Islands275

General view of Volcano House, Kilauea, Hawaii279

A lake of white-hot molten lava. the volcano of Mauna-Loá, Hawaii281

Native ploughing in rice-field, Guam. One may find rice-farms as skilfully cultivated as those of Japan or China287

The carabao, harnessed to a dray or wagon, shuffles along291

The harbor of the city. scene on the Pasig River, Manila295

Extracting indigo in Ilocos Province, Philippine Islands297

Manila hemp as it is brought in from the country299

A breadfruit tree in Java303

Coffee-drying in Java309

Natives in the jungle, Sumatra313

A jungle, scene in sumatra316

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