Illustrations vii 



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The Brady Glacier 181 



Marking the Alaskan boundary 182 



The surface of the "Hugh Miller" glacier 183 



Triangulation party returning from a trip to a station near the Muir glacier 183 



View up Queen inlet toward the boundary line — the "Carroll" glacier shows in the back- 

 ground 184 



A view showing how a surveyor should be shod who has much traveling to do on ice. . . . 185 



An observing party climbing a very steep slope to a triangulation station 185 



Silk sleeping tent, weight about 8 pounds, 9 x 10, showing cots and sleeping bags 186 



An observing party returning to camp from a triangulation station on a snow field which 



is a little soft from the action of the sun 187 



"Camp diversion" 187 



Sunset views in July 188 



Taking a swim in a pool on the mountain top 189 



Scene in Dismal Swamp — southern margin, near Elizabeth City, N. C. 191 



A well-constructed drainage ditch — side slope prevents caving and erosion 192 



A poorly constructed drainage ditch — sides caved and eroded 193 



Road-making across newly reclaimed tract of swamp land in Sacramento valley 194 



Type of conveyor dredge used in channel-deepening 195 



Reclaimed Shiocton swamp, Wisconsin— a crop said to be 20 tons per acre 196 



Difficulties encountered in survey of Sacramento valley (U. S. Geological Survey party) . . 197 



Minnesota swamp survey (U. S. Geological Survey party en route) 198 



Hand-ditching by contract labor, Holbeck's swamp, near Charleston, S. C 198 



Topographer at work in Tule swamp of Sacramento valley, California 199 



Cathedral and Union Club, Cape Haitien 207 



Citizens of Cape Haitien 208 



Boys of Santo Domingo 213 



Sketch map of Haiti 215 



Colonnade of Golden Lily tank, with paintings of Siva's sports 219 



Porch of a thousand pillars — Madura 220 



Golden Lily tank — Madura 221 



Teppakulam or raft tank — Madura 222 



Among honest people 223 



School children in a Swiss town 228 



Crossing a Swiss lake 229 



"Padaung" woman and child — South Shan States, Burma 230 



Our equipage on the road to Cuzco — Mrs. Adams and the Cholo driver 232 



Foot-bridge of woven willow over River Vilcanota, on the road to Cuzco 233 



Toot-travelers 234 



Inca "burial tomb and Andean hut of mud and thatch 234 



•Quichua farmers 235 



Plowing at an elevation of 11,000 feet 235 



What the Quichua farmer lacks in modern machinery he makes up in the decorative head- 

 dress of his oxen 236 



Harvesting on the roof of the world 237 



Gathering fuel for the home 238 



Rear guard of a llama train 239 



Beggars 239 



Quichua girls returning from mass 240 



A full-blooded Quichua 241 



The patient beasts of burden of the Andean highland 242 



Resting at a wayside hut 243 



""'As in the days of Ataiiualpa" 244 



