Contents v 



Page 

 Solivia — A Country Without a Debt; by Seiior Y. Calderon, Minister from Bolivia to 



the United States S73 



Our Heralds of Storm and Flood ; by Gilbert H. Grosvenor 586 



The Work in the Pacific Ocean of the Magnetic Survey Yacht Galilee; by L. A. Bauer, 



Director, Department Terrestrial Magnetism i 6oi 



Hunting the Grizzly in British Columbia ; Joseph WendlE 612 



Scenes from North Africa 615 



A Strange and Remarkable Beast 620 



The Chinese Jews ; by Oliver Bainbridge 621 



Tirnova, the City of Hanging Gardens ; by Felix J. Koch 632 



■ Geologists in China 640 



Map of Africa 640 



.Koyasan, the Japanese Valhalla ; by Eliza R. ScidmorE 650 



An Experimental Boat of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, driven by Aerial Propellers 671 



,Dr. Bell's Tetrahedral Tower 672 



The Deep-water Route from Chicago to the Gulf; by Gilbert H. Grosvenor 679 



The Marvelous Prosperity of the South 685 



New Topographic Maps 686 



Introducing Reindeer into Labrador 686 



'Queer Methods of Travel in Curious Corners of the World; by O. P. Austin, Chief of 



■ the U. S. Bureau of Statistics 687 



Planting Fishes in the Ocean ; by George M. Bowers, U. S. Commissioner of Fish and 



Fisheries 715 



Hunting Big Game in Portuguese East Africa 723 



-A Visit to Lonely Iceland ; by PerlEy H. Noyes 731 



The Land of Fire; by Jon Stefansson 741 



: Scenes from Every Land 744 



Photographic Collections 744 



Helping the Farmers 746 



National Geographic Society 746 



.Madeira — On the Way to Italy ; by David Fairchild 751 



A Simple Method of Proving that the World Is Round; by RobErT Marshall Brown. . 771 



The Modern Alchemist; by James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture 781 



Helping the Filipino Fisheries 795 



"The Anglo-American Polar Expedition 796 



The Use of Nuts as Food 800 



American Explorations in Egypt 801 



The Truth about the Congo 811 



-Geographical Books of 1907 « . . 813 



Proposed Change in the By-Laws of the National Geographic Society 825 



flmagination and Geography 830 



