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INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS 



Maps and Diagrams (continued) : Page 



North America at the time of maximum 



extent of the ice 526 



Nunatak Glacier in 1895, 1899, 1909: Alaska 44 



Pacific coast of Gulf of Alaska 3 



Profile of the Transandine Tunnel 411 



Relief map of Malaspina Glacier, Mount St 



Elias, and Yakutat Bay 4 



Site of the Los Angeles aqueduct 595 



Sketch map of Guatemala 613 



Sketch map of railroad from Buenos Aires to 



Santiago 401 



Sketch map of the South Polar regions 168 



Sketch map of Spain 188 



Sketch map of the Upper Salwin 147 



That part of Costa Rica which was over- 

 whelmed by the earthquake of May 4, 



191 o 516 



Valdez Glacier highway: Alaska 11 



Variegated and Haeneke Glaciers: Alaska... 35 



Volcanoes of Costa Rica 495 



Wyoming township partially underlain by 



coal — Diagram 449 



Mexico: 



Actual "top" of Orizaba is about 2 or 3 



feet square 759 



An anxious moment 1035 



Ancient burden bearer in the mines 989 



Audience room opening on the Hall of the 



Six Columns, Mitla loio 



Aztec calendar stone in the National Mu- 

 seum, Mexico City 1 045 



"Baile" during a fiesta in Tehuantepec 1000 



Big tree of tule, Oaxaca 996 



Burros carrying straw: Mexico City 986 



Cacao or chocolate growing in Tabasco 1023 



Cacao or chocolate pod ready for shelling: 



Tabasco 1 022 



Carrying 2,300 feet of % steel aerial tram- 

 way cable on 12 mules 990 



Consignment of fighting cocks 1037 



Crater of Iztaccihuatl 748 



Crater wall : Orizaba 756 



Crates used for carrying chickens to market. 987 



Cruciform cellar at Mitla 1016 



Cruciform grave near Mitla 1017 



Details of typical desert vegetation on hill- 

 top at Santo Domingo 716 



Difficult piece of rock to be surmounted: 



Orizaba 756 



Drying the henequen fiber of which rope is 



made 1032 



Echinocactus flavescens: Tehnacan 700 



IJchinocactus grande: Tehuacan 701 



Fowl sellers in Mexico 1020 



Fretwork mosaic at Mitla, in the Palace of 



Mosaics 1013 



Friar Peak of Popocatepetl 744 



Group of desert vegetation on limestone slope 



near El Riego, Tehuacan 702 



Hats and baskets for sale 1044 



Highest peak of Toluca 752 



Inspecting chicle, the basis of chewing gum, 



in Yucatan 1021 



Laborers returning from the sugar-cane 



fields, Sinaloa 1031 



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Lake in the crater of Toluca 751 



Loading burros with their cargoes of brick. . 1025 



Loading sugar-cane: El Dorado, Sinaloa.... 1030 



Loading Yaquis for Yucatan 1039 



Luxurious vanilla vine 1027 



Main entrance to the Palace of ^Mosaics, 



Mitla 1 004 



Masks for sale for a fiesta in a Mexican town 1034 

 Monoliths in the Hall of Six Columns, Mitla. 1008 

 Most colossal structure of prehistoric man in 

 America: The Pyramid of the Sun (re- 

 stored): Teotihuacan 1042 



Native brick manufacturers 1 024 



Native dug-out canoes at Patzcuaro 992 



Native laborers: Tehuantepec 997 



One of the largest temples or palaces at 



Mitla I o 1 4 



Orizaba, "The shining star" 754 



O-x cart at Bebelama, Sinaloa 986 



Papago Indian drinking from a cactus, west 



of Torres 712 



Picturesque costumes of the guides 749 



Popocatepetl, the "Smoking Mountain" of 



the Aztecs 742 



Prolific coff^ee tree 1047 



Scene on the Pacific coast: Sinaloa 1049 



Sorting beans in Mexico 1028 



Steep slope of Iztaccihuatl 748 



Street in Guanajuato, a town not far from 



Mexico City 1 046 



Street scene in Alamos, Sonora, a typical 



Mexican town 1040 



Summit of Orizaba, with the crater edge in 



the foreground 757 



Tehuantepec girl in her ball gown 999 



The most massive of all cacti, Cereas weberi: 



Tomellin 705 



The popular diversion among the uneducated 



classes 1 036 



"The Woman in White" 746 



Torture of Guatemotzin, the last Aztec Em- 

 peror of Mexico, by Cortes 1018 



Town of San Geronimo, on the Tehuan- 

 tepec Railroad, a short distance trom the 



Pacific end of the line 994 



Transporting a joint of pressure pipe for 



hydro-electric power plant 9S8 



Transporting by mule team g?9 



Transporting a shaft weighing 580 pounds to 



the cyanide plant 988 



Tree cactus near Tehuacan 698-6;: 9 



Typical view of the slopes of Orizaba, below 



the snow line 757 



Typical Zapoteca woman with the peculiar 



head dress 1003 



Vertical walls of the immense crater of 



Popocatepetl 745 



View of the Palace of Mosaics of iNIitla. show- 

 ing the elaborate exterior decoration. . . . 1006 



View of a deep barranca in Mexico 1048 



View of the great crater of Toluca 751 



View from the slope of Orizaba, showing 

 Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl, 20 miles 



away 755 



