ILL USTRA TIONS vii 



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Diagram showing conjugal condition in Cuba 205 



The harbor of Mollendo, Peru (pi. 6) 209 



Opening pearl oysters, Panama 21 1 



A Caballitos 2i;5 



A Panama laundr}' 214 



A Central American family, Nicaragua 218 



Tlie most influential citizen of Areqnipa 221 



Transportation facilities of interior Peru 223 



The geograi)hic relation of France and her African colonies. . . 223 



Map showing military telegraph lines, military posts, ports of entry, and 



area of Porto Rico as compared with Connecticut 242 



Geogra()liical extent of the bubonic plague 248 



Grove Karl Gilbert (pi. 7) 249 



Descendants of the Incas 265 



An Inca cemetery 267 



Balsas on Lake Titicaca 270 



Inca burial tower near Lake Titicaca 273 



Bolivian soldiers 277 



Bolivian miners 278 



Membership of the National Geographic Society 288 



Outline map of the Far East. 290 



Outline sketch of the city of Pekin 291 



Map showing the eountrj' from Ta-ku to Pekin 292 



The world's production of coal 294 



Farthest north 296 



Map of the Chinese Empire and Japan (pi. 8) ... 297 



Buddhist priests — Amoy 301 



Police court — Shanghai 302 



Sampling tea — Slianghai 306 



A typical Chinese village and canal 311 



A cemeter}' at Chinkiang . . 317 



A characteristic Chinese bridge 318 



F. H. Newell 325 



A group of Chinese farmers 331 



Minister Conger 332 



Map of northwestern China (pi. 9) 337 



Map showing the Colorado Desert region 3,39 



Land recently inundated along banks of Hardy River, the Cocopah Moun- 

 tains in background 343 



The crater of the Sierra Prieta 345 



Mud volcanoes of the Hardy River, Colorado Desert 346 



Cocopah winter house and basket granaries 350 



In the gorges of the Yangtze 357 



One of the main avenues of Shanghai 358 



Forest reserves of the United States 370 



The Great Wall of Chiiui 373 



