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A bullock carriage used by ladies of rank, India 694 



A hill country "ekka" with passenger and baggage — India 695 



Conveyances in Hyderabad, India 696 



Morning ride of a lady of Calcutta in her palanquin 697 



A "push-push" of India 698 



Carts with bamboo covers, Ceylon 699 



Young men riding to a Mohammedan festival, Allahabad, India 699 



Coolies in the Himalaya Mountains bringing hay to market 700 



Carabaos threshing rice in the Philippines 701 



Tagalog boys carrying vegetables to Manila 702 



Carrying water in bamboo tubes, Philippine Islands 703 



Carrying milk to Manila 704 



Traveling in Luzon, Philippine Islands 70S 



Wheelbarrow carrying freight and passenger, Shanghai 706 



Street scene in Hongkong 706 



A dray seen on the streets of Shanghai 707 



Transportation by man power, Yokohama 708 



Reindeer carrying U. S. Mail, Alaska 710 



Crossing the Thelmu River by a bridge of one rawhide rope, Uri, India 711 



A carriage in Madeira, where all conveyances are sleds 712 



A market camel being unloaded on a sidewalk in Cairo 713 



A caravan through the desert 714 



An automobile train in Australia 715 



Female lobster, showing eggs attached to the swimmerets 717 



Scraping the eggs from a live lobster for hatching purposes 718 



George M. Bowers, U. S. Commissioner of Fisheries 719 



Interior of a marine hatchery 720 



Spawn-taker obtaining cod eggs from a fishing vessel '. . . . 722 



A typical native village in Portugese East Africa 724 



Native woman pounding maize 725 



A wart-hog 726 



The fallen monarch 727 



A fair-sized bull hippopotamus 728 



Native drums 729 



Traveling in pre-railway days, Portugese East Africa 730 



An Icelander knitting socks 731 



Great canyon of the Jokulsa 733 



Ponies fording the Thjorsa 733 



The gullfoss or gold fall 734 



A group of Icelandic farmers and ponies 735 



An Icelandic dog and puppy 735 



Drying codfish 736 



A schoolboy 736 



Milking time 738 



The town of Seydisfjord, at the head of the fjord of the same name 739 



An Icelander's family 740 



A farm-house and farm-yard 740 



A special exhibition of the Sacred Tooth, Kandy, Ceylon 745 



Effect of spraying oatfields with iron sulphate, solution for eradication of wild mustard. . 747 



An intermediate type of tomato, nearly seedless - 748 



I<arge type seedless tomato 748 



Corn grown on undrained field 749 



Corn grown on field with tile drains 70 feet apart 749 



Com grown on field with tile drains 40 feet apart 749 



The open roadstead of Funchal 752 



The running car, with attendants 753 



