INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS 
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ASIA: Ceylon — Continued Page 
Tea, fermenting tlie 167 
Tea house, scene in a large 169 
Tea leaves, picking the 163 
Tea leaves, sorting the 164 
Tea pickers, paying bfif the 166 
Tea plantation, a large 170 
Tea plantation, resting at mid-day on a 165 
Tea plant, flowers and buds of 161 
Tea, preparing the, before picking 168 
Tea seedling, planting a 162 
China: 
Arch (pai-lous), memorial, of old gray sand- 
stone, erected in honor of a virtuous 
widow 1003 
Arches (pai-lous), row of, erected to the mem- 
ory of widows who refused to marry a 
second time 1002 
Bridge, characteristic Chinese, with cypress, 
bamboo, and Pistacia chinensis 1005 
Canal mud, recent removed, is heavily charged 
with large snail shells 951 
Caravan, resting 1047 
Chi-Ii, grave mounds in, between Taku and 
Tientsin 937 
Chi-li, Province of, irrigation by means of the 
swinging basket 953 
Chinese bride, a 1048 
Chinese city express 1050 
Field covered with piles of canal mud recently 
applied at the rate of more than 70 tons 
per acre, section of 949 
Field, increasing the available surface of the, 
so that double the number of plants may 
occupy the ground 936 
Fields, fertilizing the, with canal-mud 948 
Fuel, rice straw, being conveyed from canal 
boats to city market stalls 946 
Ginger, fields of, just planted, ridged and fur- 
rowed for drainage 940 
Grave mounds, group of grass-grown, carrying 
the streamer standards and showing the 
extensive occupation of land 937 
Grave mounds recently restored and bearing 
the streamer standards in token of me- 
morial services 937 
Hongkong: Happy Valley, floral pieces in 
florist's garden 939 
Incubators, four Chinese, in a room where 
there are 30, each having a capacity of 
1,200 hen-eggs 950 
Kai-feng, pagoda, detail of "iron," at 999 
Kai-feng, pagoda, the famous "iron," at 998 
Lotus pond with plant in bloom, cultivated 
for their fleshy roots used for food 942 
Lung-men : Buddha, great, over 50 feet high, 
in the Chu-chian-fung Temple 1021 
Lung-men: Chu-chian-fung: Group, a char- 
acteristic carved 1025 
Lung-men, cliff showing carved decorations 
around the entrance to the Temple Cheian 
Shesu at 1 024 
Lung-men, corner, an elaborate, in a rock 
recess at 1029 
Lung-men, figures carved in the rock, one of 
the large 1027 
Lung-men: Interpreter, soldiers, and servants 
of Mr. Charles L. Freer, while studying 
the rock temples 1016 
ASIA: China — Continued 
Lung-men: Low-Goon-Tung Temple, interior 
of the 1036-1039 
Lung-men: Ping Yung Tung: Detail of carv- 
ing on the wall 1028 
Lung-men: Rock cliff of the Yi River, show- 
ing a few of the thousands of temples and 
sacred recesses carved out of the rock...ioi8 
Lung-men, temple interior, typical of the many 
hundreds of sacred recesses carved in the 
rock cliffs of the river at 1034 
Lung-men, temple, interior of a very lavishly 
decorated, at 1 040 
Lung-men: Temple of Nan Tung, guardian of 
the 1 022 
Lvmg-men: Temples, several of the largest, 
are known by the one name, "Ping Yung 
Tung" 1026 
Lung-men, temples, view of the rock-hewn, at.1019 
Lung-men: Wan-for-Tung Temple, decorations 
outside the 1 030 
Lung-men : Wan-For-Tung, entrance to, and 
decorations on the side wall of entrance. . 1031 
Lung-men: Wan-Fcr-Tung Temple, inside of 
1032-1033 
Man, young, loading his boat with canal-mud, 
using the long-handled clam-shell dredge. 953 
Men freighters going inland with loads of 
matches 938 
Ming Tombs: Camel and elephants, standing. 1007 
Ming Tombs: Camel, lions, and fabulous ani- 
mal,, kneeling 1008 
Ming Tombs: Horse and lion, standing; horse, 
kneeling 1009 
i\Iing Tombs, pai-lous, five-arched, at the en- 
trance to the "Holy Way," in the valley 
of the 1006 
Ming Tombs: Pillars along the Holy Way. . . . 1006 
Ming Tombs: Sage and soldier, ancient loix 
Ming Tombs: Soldier, an ancient loio 
Nanking: Ming Emperors, only two, are buried 
here 1012 
Pearl River, Chinese junks on the 1049 
Peking: Ch'ien Men, the principal gate of the 
nine gates: Entrance to the Forbidden 
City I o 1 5 
Peking: Chinamen out for an airing 1053 
Peking: Chinamen coming to town from the 
suburbs 1051 
Peking, Chinamen gathering for a race in.... 1049 
Peking: Chinese onion peddler 1050 
Peking, entrances, one of the great, to the 
city of 1052 
Peking: Manchu child, a 1053 
Peking: Manchu woman 1053 
Peking: Temple of the Moon 1052 
Pekingese cart, open 1051 
Pump, three-man foot-power and wooden 
chain, extensively used for irrigation in 
various parts of China 945 
Pump, treadmill, very common in China 944 
Rice, nursery bed of, 29 days planted 954 
Shanghai: Fuel, boat-loads of, mainly bundles 
of rice-straw and cotton stems, on Soo- 
chow. Creek 946 
Shanghai : Fuel, dried grass, gathered on grave 
lands 947 
Shanghai: Sewing circle in the open air and 
sunshine 94i 
