| The Great Rainbow Natural Bridge of Southern Utah | Frontispiece |
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| Map of Islands of the Pacific | Facing 1 |
| Mohave Desert, California. Buzzards' Roost | 6 |
| Gila monsters | 9 |
| A giant cactus in Arizona | 12 |
| The Roosevelt Dam, Arizona, showing south bridge and spillway | 17 |
| Shoshone Project, Wyoming | 25 |
| The Grand Canyon of the Colorado | 29 |
| Grand View Trail | 33 |
| The Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, looking down canyon from Grand Point | 37 |
| The Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Mammoth Hot Springs, Summit Pools | 45 |
| The Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Beehive Geyser | 47 |
| The Brontosaurus | 53 |
| The Allosaurus | 55 |
| Twenty mule borax team | 61 |
| The Oroya Railroad, Peru, showing four sections of the road | 73 |
| Llamas resting | 77 |
| Silver-smelting works at Cassapalca, on the Oroya Railroad, Peru, 13,600 feet high | 79 |
| Fishing for sturgeon through the ice of the Ural River. Catching the material for caviare | 83 |
| Gathering salt at the mouth of the Ural River | 87 |
| Driving over the tundra in winter | 91 |
| Train on the steppes of Russia | 95 |
| Dunkar Spiti, Himalaya Mountains, India | 99 |
| The yak not only serves as a beast of burden, but furnishes milk, butter, and meat | 103 |
| Khaibar Pass, the gateway to India | 107 |
| A group of Arabs with their dromedaries | 111 |
| On the sands of the desert | 117 |
| A caravan crossing the desert on the road to Jaffa | 125 |
| Peary's ship, the Roosevelt | 137 |
| Commander Robert E. Peary and three of his eskimo dogs on the Roosevelt | 141 |
| Musk ox | 144 |
| An antarctic summer scene | 149 |
| The penguin defies the cold | 153 |
| Street in Reykjavik, Iceland | 163 |
| North Cape, Iceland | 167 |
| Stone igloos on the bleak coast of Greenland | 171 |
| A large iceberg | 173 |
| A group of Eskimos in south Greenland | 174 |
| The Straits of Magellan. Cape Pilar is the extreme western end | 177 |
| Fuegians | 179 |
| The Everglades of Florida | 184 |
| Group of Seminole Indians in the Everglades of Florida | 187 |
| The Devil's Slide, Weber Canyon, Utah | 191 |
| Witch Rocks, near Echo Canyon, Utah | 193 |
| This strong and impregnable place is the Rock of Gibraltar, and the city nestling at its base, Gibraltar | 201 |
| Landing-place for commerce on the Caspian Sea | 209 |
| Open workings of the diamond mine, Kimberley | 219 |
| Sorting gravel for diamonds in the Kimberley Mine | 223 |
| A Malay girl | 229 |
| A Malay boy | 231 |
| A giant fig-tree, 140 feet in circumference | 235 |
| A mother kangaroo with a young kangaroo in her pocket | 237 |
| An Australian emeu | 239 |
| Homestead and station in Young District, Australia | 243 |
| The Great Barrier Reef of Australia, the most remarkable animal structure in the world | 247 |
| Melbourne is the largest city of australia and contains nearly half a million people | 257 |
| Maori pa, or village | 263 |
| The Petrifying Geyser, New Zealand | 265 |
| Native canoe, Fiji Islands | 275 |
| General view of Volcano House, Kilauea, Hawaii | 279 |
| A lake of white-hot molten lava. the volcano of Mauna-Loá, Hawaii | 281 |
| Native ploughing in rice-field, Guam. One may find rice-farms as skilfully cultivated as those of Japan or China | 287 |
| The carabao, harnessed to a dray or wagon, shuffles along | 291 |
| The harbor of the city. scene on the Pasig River, Manila | 295 |
| Extracting indigo in Ilocos Province, Philippine Islands | 297 |
| Manila hemp as it is brought in from the country | 299 |
| A breadfruit tree in Java | 303 |
| Coffee-drying in Java | 309 |
| Natives in the jungle, Sumatra | 313 |
| A jungle, scene in sumatra | 316 |