X FKOM NORTH POLE TO EQUATOR. 



THE PRIMEVAL FOEESTS OP CENTRAL AFEICA. 



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 Spring in the forest — The beautiful Hassanie — The baobab — Climbers and 

 twiners — The forest birds and their voices — Sociable birds — Conjugal 

 tenderness — Salt's antelope — Eiver monsters — A rain-lake — Hosanna 

 in the highest— (Notes, pp. 576-578), - . ... 201 



MIGRATIONS OP MAMMALS. 



Black rats and brown — Cousin man's kindness to the monkeys — Migration 

 of mountain animals — The restlessness of the reindeer — Wandering 

 herds of buffaloes — The life of the kulan — Travellers by sea — Plights 

 of bats — The march of the lemmings — (Notes, pp. 578-581), - - 234 



LOVE AND COUETSHIP AMONG BIEDS. 



Are birds automata? — The battles of love — Different modes of courtship 



— Polygamy — Life-long devotion — (Notes, p. 581), ... - 259 



APES AND MONKEYS. 



Sheikh Kemal's story — The monkey question — A general picture of 

 monkey life — Marmosets and other New World monkeys — Dog-like 

 and man-like Old World monkeys — Monkeys as pets — The true 

 position of monkeys — (Notes, pp. 581-583), .... - 282 



DESERT JOURNEYS. 



An appreciation of the desert — The start of the caravan — The character 

 of the camel — A day's journey — Oases — Simoom and sand storms — 

 Pata morgana — The peace of night — (Note, p. 583), ... 318 



NUBIA AND THE NILE RAPIDS. 



Egypt and Nubia contrasted — Wady Haifa and Philas — The three great 

 cataracts — Journey up and down stream — The Nile boatmen — History 

 of Nubia— (Notes, pp. 583-584), - - 356 



A JOURNEY IN SIBERIA. 



Russian hospitality — A tedious journey- — An excursion into Chinese 

 territory — Sport among the mountains — Journeying northwards — On 

 the track of splenic fever — (Notes, p. 584), ... 390 



THE HEATHEN OSTIAKS. 



Racial affinities — Christians and heathen — The dress of the Ostiaks — The 

 tshum of the wandering Ostiaks — The life of the herdsmen — A fishing 

 village — The Ostiak at the fair — An Ostiak wedding — An interview 

 with a Shaman — Puneral rites — (Notes, pp. 584-585), - 416 



