vi ILLUSTRATIONS 



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Scene on the Little Fork of the Saskatchewan 116 



Camp scene on the North Fork of the Saskatchewan 120 



Falls of the North Fork of the Saskatchewan 123 . 



View of Mount Forbes from an elevation of about 9,000 feet 128 



Winter scene on pass between the Blaeberry and the north branch 



of the Kicking river 1 33 



Cutting a redwood tree (pi. 4) 1-15 



Map showing the geographic distribution of redwood on the Pacific 



coast 146 



Redwood forest scene, illustrating densit}' of growth 147 



Sprouted redwood on cut areas 151 



Typical redwood forest scene ■ 153 



Hauling logs by cable 157 



A train-load of logs 158 



Theater of military operations in Luzon, 1899 (pi. 5) 18l> 



Native road in Samoa 207 



German plantation in Samoa 208 



Street in Apia 209 



Interior of Samoan native house 210 



Samoan girls making kava ... 211 



Samoan native canoe. 213 



Samoan bride 214 



Samoan native house 216 



Samoan chief. ..... 217 



Map of the region adjacent to the Nicaragua canal route (pi. 6) 233 



Idealized diagram to illustrate the development of the present topog- 

 raphy in portions of the San Juan valley 236 



Map of Lake Nicaragua 239 



Map of basins of the Rio Grande and Rio Las Lajas'. 242 



Mombacho in clouds (pi. 7 ) 246 



President's palace ...., 249 



Castillo rapids 251 



Momotombo . , 254 



Calabra cut, Panama canal 256 



Street in Panama 259 



Mouth of Rio Grande : proposed site of Brito harbor 260 



Diagram showing mean inflow to Lake Nicaragua compared with the 



mean rainfall in its basin 262 



Diagram of the daily mean discharge in cubic feet per second of the 



Rio San Juan above mouth of Sabalos 264 



Scene in Rivas 266 



Map of south polar regions, showing routes of the proposed Antarctic 



expeditions (pi. 8) 281 



Sketch map of Alaska, showing mail route and suggested field for 



exploration 282 



Shishaldin and associated peaks 283 



Akutan island 284 



Bogoslov islands 287 



