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 |