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The National Geographic Magazine 



Bedouin Woman and Child 



From "Nigeria, Our Latest Protectorate," by 

 C. H. Robinson 



ditions. By Francis E. Clark. Pp. 349. 

 Sl4x8}i inches. Illustrated. New York: 

 Fleming H. Revell Co. 1907. 

 Perhaps the best chapter in Dr Clark's ad- 

 mirable account of his five months' journey 

 around South America is that on "Brazil — the 

 Boundless." 



"Brazil owes its predominant importance 

 among the South American States to the pro- 

 ductiveness of its soil and the variety of its 

 resources quite as much as to its vast size. It 

 is not too much to say that every product that 

 makes for the comfort and wealth of mankind 



is found in Brazil. Coffee, sugar, cotton, rub- 

 ber, corn, wheat, diamonds, gold, are only a 

 few of her products, and the undeveloped and 

 even unexplored wealth of the country is in- 

 finitely greater than that which can be cata- 

 logued. 



"The country rises abruptly, but not inac- 

 cessibly from the shore for hundreds of miles, 

 and the table-lands that lie back from the coast 

 at a height of two or three thousand feet en- 

 joy all the blessings of a temperate climate, 

 even when they lie within the tropics. More- 

 over, the rainfall throughout almost the entire 

 length and breadth of Brazil is sufficient to 

 produce the most luxuriant vegetation in the 

 world, a luxuriance which led Amerigo Ves- 

 pucci, the navigator who gave his name to both 

 continents, to say that 'if Paradise did exist 

 on this planet, it could not be far from the 

 Brazilian coast,' while Agassiz believed that 

 'the future center of the civilization of the 

 world would be in the Amazon Valley.' 



"The contrast in respect to verdure and 

 vegetation between the east and west coasts of 

 South America is as the difference between the 

 garden of Eden and the desert of Sahara. On 

 the west coast for twenty-five hundred miles 

 one scarcely sees a tree or a blade of grass — 

 only sand-swept mountains, grand and impres- 

 sive, to be sure, but forbidding in the extreme. 

 Throughout the vast coast line of Brazil one 

 can hardly conceive how another blade of grass 

 could grow or another tree could stand in the 

 crowded, luxuriant vegetation that now occu- 

 pies the soil." 



The Andes and The Amazon. Life and 



travel in Peru. By C. Reginald Enock. 



Pp. 370. 9% ^ 6 inches. Illustrated. ISIap. 



New York : Imported by Charles Scrib- 



ner's Sons. 1907. $5.00 net. 

 An eloquent and sympathetic account of 

 ancient and modern Peru : 



"Peru is a country covered with a certain 

 halo of romance — the romance of history; of 

 that time when continents were found, taken, 

 and explored ; the romance of a civilized and 

 little known race — the Inca — extending back 

 before the keels of those old caravels from 

 Europe ploughed the seas of the New World ; 

 the romance of the Spaniards, picturesque and 

 cruel ; the romance of Nature in her most 

 stupendous operations, her Andean and Ama- 

 zonian handiwork. 



"Peru contains all the products of the 

 tropical, semi-tropical, and temperate zones 

 and her 1,400 miles of Pacific littoral, and 

 situation upon the largest system of navigable 

 waterways in the world — the Amazon and its 

 affluents — must some day cause her to become 

 the center of a busy and extensive population. 

 "Peru is a country of large things ; it has 

 one of the greatest mountain ranges in the 

 world — the Andes ; it has the longest river 

 system — the Amazon and its afiluents — and the 



