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Schillings' giraffe passing the hiding-place from which the picture was taken 540 



A flashlight of a powerful and full-grown leopard, taken at midnight S4i 



Rhinoceroses taking a bath 54^ 



A cow rhinoceros with its young 543 



Flashlight of a maned lion 544 



Flashlight of a lioness about to spring upon a donkey 545 



Street scenes during Saint Stephen's Fete — Budapest 549 



Hungarian peasant 55^ 



Hungarian noblemen 553 



Views of the procession 554 



The procession 55& 



The sacred relic 556 



Two New Guinea dandies 561 



Curious drums of the Tugeri (Dutch New Guinea) 562 



A piebald tribe 565 



A spider's web as a fishing net 5^7 



Fishing with the spider's-web net 568 



New Guinea women wearing the rami, or petticoat, made of leaves 570 



Mr. A. E. Pratt and some native collectors 57i 



Rubber gatherers in Bolivia 581 



Tapping the rubber tree in Bolivia 582 



Curing rubber by smoking it 584 



Packing-room of a rubber house, Bolivia 585 



Willis L. Moore, LL. D 587 



Wreckage at Kansas City, Missouri, after the subsidence of the Kansas River flood 



of 1903 588 



Scene in railway yard, Kansas City, after the visitation of a flood 591 



A fog billow, San Francisco 592 



A typical weather map 595 



Cirrus clouds merging into cirro-stratus 59^ 



Broken cumulus clouds 596 



Cirro-cumulus clouds 597 



Cirrus, the highest flying cloud 597 



Ocean fog pouring in over the hills upon San Francisco 598 



Sea fog lifting and changing to clouds, San Francisco Bay 598 



The jumping characteristics of a tornado, Louisville, Kentucky 599 



Buildings burst open by the explosive effect of a tornado 599 



Freaks of tornadoes 600 



The yacht Galilee at San Diego 602 



Scene on board the Galilee while working near the equator 602 



Inhabitants of Fanning Island 603 



A scene on Nukahiva, Marquesas Islands 603 



Natives of Fanning Island 604 



Women of the Marquesas Islands 604 



Native women playing cricket, Samoan Islands 606 



Natives bathing at Samoan Islands 606 



Fiti Fiti guard, Samoan Islands 607 



A Fiji Islander 608 



Scene in the Fiji Islands 609 



The Observers en route to the observing station near Yokohama. View of the special 

 observing bridge. The Galilee blown on the breakwater at Yokohama. View of the 



Scientific party taken in the cabin of the Galilee 610 



A grizzly caught by a fallen log. A black bear trapped 613 



Two grizzly bears shot by Joseph Wendle 614 



Moorish girl, Morocco 616 



Moorish girl, Morocco 617 



