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Igorrote packers on the road to Benguet 95 



Tiruray dancers 96 



Outskirts of Cotobato ' 97 



An Igorrote 98 



The house of the Gaddanes, near Iligan, Isabela, Luzon 99 



A group of pigmy Negritos with two Americans of average size 100 



Nipa house under construction 101 



Nipa palm, from which roofs and sides of houses are made, Culion Island. . . 102 



Carabao in their native element 105 



Moro dancing girls 106 



Administration building, Harbin, October, 1903 115 



School of commerce, Harbin, October, 1903 115 



Russian church, Harbin 116 



View of Russo-Chinese bank and railroad hotel in the distance, Harbin, October, 1903. . 116 



River Sungari, Harbin 119 



Completed section of Dalny, showing residences of railway officials 119 



Business buildings in river town, Harbin 120 



River Sungari, Harbin 123 



Handling the 50-ton blocks for construction of piers, Dalny , 124 



Laying the 50-ton blocks for the piers, Dalny. 124 



Constructing a dry dock at Dalny 126 



Map showing comparative size of Manchuria and Korea and the United States 127 



Map of the Great Siberian railway • 129 



Outline map of scene of military operations in the Far East 129 



Junks bringing timber to Niuchwang from the Yalu river 130 



Chinese sawmill in Manchuria 130 



Design for a Geological Survey flag 135 



Boats used at Bagdad today ; also used 3,000 years ago Frontispiece 



The house of a wealthy date merchant 140 



A group of Mohammedans on a pilgrimage to Berbela 141 



Returning to the steamer at Jask 141 



Raft made of the leaves of the date palm 141 



Three Brahmins on the ' ' Pemba " 142 



Raft made of date-palm leaves in the water 14 2 



Mohammedan women of Bagdad '. 14 2 



The falcon of an Arab sheik 14 2 



A canal scene — Busra 144 



In the suburbs of Bagdad, showing the mud houses and date palms 145 



The harbor of Muscat 146 



On the Tigris in early morning 146 



The skin water bag of the traveler in the interior 146 



Women filling their water bags in the Tigris — Bagdad 147 



A slave boy • 149 



A date merchant at Busra 149 



A mosque in Bagdad 149 



A veiled woman of Muscat 149 



Women at worship in a church — Bagdad 150 



Saguaro, or giant cactus, near Tucson, Arizona 15 2 



The yucca in the Tularosa desert, New Mexico . . 154 



The yucca growing up through a dune 50 feet high 155 



