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^NATIONAL 



GEOGRAPHIC 

 MAGAZINE 



JlbJL 



Vol. XVII 



DECEMBER, 1906 



No. 12 



CONTENTS 



PRESENT CONDITIONS IN CHINA 



An Account of the Marvelous Transformation in Progress in the Empire 



By Hon. JOHN W. FOSTER 



Formerly U. S. Secretary of State 



THE GREATEST HUNT IN THE WORLD 



With 17 Full-page Illustrations 

 By ELIZA RUHAMAH SCIDMORE 



Foreign Secretary of the National Geographic Society, Author of " Winter India," " China— the 

 Long-lived Empire," " Jinrikisha Days in Japan," " Java, the Garden of the East," etc. 



LATIN AMERICA AND COLOMBIA 



(Illustrated) 



By Hon. JOHN BARRETT 



U. S. Minister to Colombia 



Published by the National Geographic Society 



Hubbard Memorial Hall 



Washington, D. C. 



$2,50 a Year 25 Cents a Number 



Entered at the Post-Office at Washington, D. C. as Second-Class Mail Matter 



