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INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS 



Africa (continued): Page 



Masai matron 368 



Masks used by some of the warrior dancers. 823 

 Method of starting the gyroscopic top: Li- 

 beria 533 



Miss Annabel Lyon, clerk of the American 



Legation : Liberia "jzz 



Modern coiffure styles in Mozambique 825 



Monitor lizard robbing a crocodile's nest. . . 953 

 Native canoes made of bark (Brachystegia) : 



Mozambique 817 



Native chief with his prime ministers and a 



few of his subjects: Angola 630 



Native house in course of construction in 



Angola 628 



Native king and his counsellors 737 



Native Kroo woman in Liberia 738 



Native village in the interior of Angola.... 625 

 Natives cracking palm-kernels for the mar- 

 ket: Angola 629 



Natives of Port Florence, Victoria Nyanza. . 366 

 Old Ronga (Kafir) woman with wooden mor- 

 tar and pestle, near Lourenco, Marques. 810 

 One of the most remarkable photos of wild 

 game ever made: A herd of elephant in 



an open forest of high timber 956 



One stage of Liberia's welcome to the Ameri- 

 can Commissioners 725 



Orchestra of marimbas: Mozambique 820 



Orchestra of 200 "pianos": Mozambique.... 829 

 Packing dates for shipment. All the best 



dates are exported S6i 



Principals in the many symbolic dances of a 



little-known tribe 826 



Recent British representatives in Monrovia: 



Liberia 733 



Residence district of Monrovia: Liberia.... 724 

 Residence of Senator S. G. Harmon at 



Grand Bassa : Liberia 727 



Residents of a village near Monrovia: Li- 

 beria 735 



Rhinoceros photographed at a distance of fif- 

 teen yards 387 



Rhinos charging 386 



Rhinos feeding 386 



Rt. Rev. S. D. Ferguson, Ivplscopal Bishop 



of Liberia 732 



Scene in a Liberian village 725 



Scene in an oasis town 564 



Scene on the Nile above Khartum 177 



Senator' Harmon entertaining the officers of 



an English steamer: Liberia 727 



Small part of the Methodist mission at Gar- 



raway : Liberia 73° 



"Soft" type of date which- keeps fairly well. 558 

 Sudd-clearing steamer run into a mass of it 



to tear out the growth 179 



Sudd-clearing steamer tearing out the ob- 

 struction with steel cables 178-180 



Sudd island m the channel, showing how it 

 sustains weight on account of its den- 

 sity 178 



Sudd is so dense at times it is necessary to 

 cut or burn the top growth before pull- 

 ing the mass apart 1 79 



Sudd swamp on the edge of the Nile 1 78 



Africa (continued) : Page 



Supreme Court of Liberia 720 



Tall minaret of the Mosque in an oasis town. 562 

 Tomb of a Mohammedan saint at the edge of 



Tozer oasis 547 



Top of a sudd growth removed and ready to 



be pulled to pieces to clear the channel. 180 

 Towing out a mass of sudd growth from the 



channel of the Nile 181 



Town of Nefta: Beled cl Jerid 548 



Turning over the rich black soil with the 

 messah or short-handled hoe: Beled el 



Jerid 556 



Two descendants of liberated Congo slaves: 



Near Monrovia 728 



Two native women returning from their 



fields: Loanda, Angola 627 



Village scene on the Nile near Gondokoro.. 176 



Visiting a native tailor shop: Liberia 728 



War dance of the M'Chopis: Feigning death 



to be revived by the witch doctor 823 



Washing, bathing, and filling pots and gourds 

 with drinking water simultaneously: Mo- 

 zambique 814 



Watching the sun for signal to end fast of 



Ramadan : Tozer 563 



White rhino and calf 959 



Witch doctor 827 



Women's war dance at Quesico: Mozam- 

 bique 830 



Women's war dance: Quesico, Mozambique. 824 



Young girl's dance of the M'Chopis 828 



Young Kafir girls, Umbeluzi: worth $25 to 



$50 eacn: filed teeth rare 817 



Young Masai women coiling iron around 



the limbs of a friend 369 



Young officers from the U. S. S. Chester 



ashore at Sierra Leone 724 



Alaska: 



Advancing Altrevida Glacier in 1906 50 



Advancing margin of Altrevida Glacier 



broken by recent forward motion 39 



A good lignite outcrop near Tyonek 940 



Alaska lignite coal, exposed for three years 



to weathering and showing resistance... 942 



Altrevida Glacier in 1909 51 



Automobile in front of Valdez Glacier 22 



Blocks of ice protruding through morainic 

 soil and forest cover, eastern margin of 



Malaspina Glacier 46 



Braided stream courses which explorers find 



difficult to cross 20 



Broken eastern margin of Marvine lobe of 

 Malaspina Glacier from alluvial fan of 



Kwik River 46 



Cascading Glacier and Mount Draper 12 



Columbia Glacier advancing into forest, over- 

 turning trees and shoving up a moraine. 32 



Columbia Glacier in 1899 53 



Copper River and Northwestern Railway 

 under construction on the stagnant ice 



of Baird Glacier 27 



East side of Columbia Glacier, photographed 

 in 1909 from exact site utilized by Gil- 

 bert ten years before 3^ 



