8 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



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Cinnamon Plant ....... .108 



Pepper Vine . 



Pepper Berries 



Ginger Plant 



Ginger ...... 



Nutmeg Estate (Malay States Agency) . 



Nutmeg- tree and Fruit (Science of Home Life : Nelson) . 



Clove Plant (Science of Home Life: Nelson) . . . .118 



Oil Palm Tree (Dr. J. B. Hurry) ... . . .122 



Fruit of Oil Palm (Dr. J. B. Hurry) . 

 Coconut Tree (Malay States Agency) 

 Section of Coconut (Malay States Agency) .. 



Ground-nut .... 



Ground-nut flower and fruit . 



Sesame Plant . . . . .."'; 



Sesame Seed Pod . . 137 



Olive Tree and Fruit (Science of Home Life : Nelson) . 



Eucalyptus Forest . 149 



Field of Tobacco, South Africa (Government of the Union of 



South Africa) . .'.,.. . . .155 



PART II 



Cotton Plant . . 162 



Cotton flower ; boll ; boll open ; seed with cotton attached . 163 

 Cotton Ginning (West India Committee) . . . . .165 



Australian Merino Sheep . . . . . . . 1 76 



Sheep Shearing (Government of the Union of South Africa) . 1 77 



Flax . . . * ...... . .187 



Hemp ..... 



Field of Sisal Hemp, Queensland . . . . . .197 



Ramie .198 



Phormium tenax . . . . . . . . .199 



Chinese women cleaning Tin (Malay States Agency) . . .217 

 Gold-mining, Johannesburg. Quartz being run into trucks for 



Crusher (Government of the Union of South Africa) . .233 



A Forest of the Coal Period 241 



Indigo. Finishing Steeping Vat (Christopher Rawson, Esq., F.I.C. ) 252 

 Indigo. Hand Beating (Christopher Rawson, Esq., F.I.C. ). . 253 

 Indigo. The Beating Wheel (Christopher Rawson, Esq., F.I.C.) . 254 

 Indigo. Cutting into Cakes (Christopher Rawson, Esq., F.I.C.) . 255 

 Diagram of Gas-manufacturing Plant (Piofessor Findlay) . . 261 

 The First Petroleum Well in Trinidad (The West India Committee) 266 

 Oilfield in Trinidad (The West India Committee) . . .267 

 Tapping rubber trees and latex cart (Malay States Agency). . 274 

 Drying and packing rubber (Malay States Agency) . . 275 



Forest Scene, British Columbia ...... 279 



