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Illustrations

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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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