X FROM NORTH POLE TO EQUATOR. 



THE PRIMEVAL FOEESTS OF CENTRAL AFRICA. 



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Spring in the forest The beautiful Hassanie The baobab Climbers and 

 twiners The forest birds and their voices Sociable birds Conjugal 

 tenderness Salt's antelope River monsters A rain-lake Hosanna 

 in the highest (Notes, pp. 576-578), - 201 



MIGRATIONS OF MAMMALS. 



Black rats and brown Cousin man's kindness to the monkeys Migration 

 of mountain animals The restlessness of the reindeer Wandering 

 herds of buffaloes The life of the kulan Travellers by sea Flights 

 of bats The march of the lemmings (Notes, pp. 578-581), - - 234 



LOVE AND COURTSHIP AMONG BIRDS. 



Are birds automata? The battles of love Different modes of courtship 



Polygamy Life-long devotion (Notes, p. 581), ... - 259 



APES AND MONKEYS. 



Sheikh Kemal's story The monkey question A general picture of 

 monkey life Marmosets and other New World monkeys Dog-like 

 and man-like Old World monkeys Monkeys as pets The true 

 position of monkeys (Notes, pp. 581-583), 282 



DESERT JOURNEYS. 



An appreciation of the desert The start of the caravan The character 

 of the camel A day's journey Oases Simoom and sand storms 

 Fata morgana The peace of night (Note, p. 583), - 318 



NUBIA AND THE NILE RAPIDS. 



Egypt and Nubia contrasted Wady Haifa and Philse The three great 

 cataracts Journey up and down stream The Nile boatmen History 

 of Nubia (Notes, pp. 583-584), - .... 355 



A JOURNEY IN SIBERIA. 



Russian hospitality A tedious journey An excursion into Chinese 

 territory Sport among the mountains Journeying northwards On 

 the track of splenic fever (Notes, p. 584), .... 390 



THE HEATHEN OSTIAKS. 



Racial affinities Christians and heathen The dress of the Ostiaks The 

 tehum of the wandering Ostiaks The life of the herdsmen A fishing 

 village The Ostiak at the fair An Ostiak wedding An interview 

 with a Shaman Funeral rites (Notes, pp. 584-585), - - - 416 



