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Guichuas : last of the Incas 687 



A poncho weaver of Cuzco 688 



Cork oaks partially stripped of the valuable bark : Almorima, Spain 69a 



Boiling the green bark — lifting a batch from the vat: the cord industry at Almoraima, 



Spain 691 



The stock-yard at Almoraima, Spain, where piles of bark await curing and bailing 692 



Adem, the author's f aithul Somali 695 



Guests on their way to Emperor Menelik's lunch party for 7,980 people 697 



Galla woman ; Abyssinia 699 



A typical high official of Abyssinia 700 



Woman's market in the Yambo country 701 



Stampeding Nuer women . 703 



The long-legged people — Nuer men and women 704 



Author's three pet ostriches, and leper camp-follower 705 



Sometimes a small fish is caught on the Nile ; sometimes not so small 707 



Ivory on the river Chinko : 708 



Yacoma crew in author's canoe on the river Mbomu 709 



Tongu with hair ornamentations of beads, Congo Free State 710 



The Sultan of Bongasso and his wives 711 



Rubber being brought in a Societe des Sultanats (Bongasso), French Congo 712 



The best dancer on the Ubangi : Banzyville, Congo Free State 713 



Cannibals with wonderful bead decorations on the hair : Congo Free State 714 



The longest canoe (71 J4 feet) on the Ubangi 715 



Bananas being conveyed by native children into the Congo Free State post of Banzyville. . 716 



Women dancing in the Congo Free State 717 



Cannibal dancers in Congo Free State 718 



Fisher women on the Ubangi, Congo Free State 719 



Picturesque cannibals : Sango tribe 720 



A beauty competition 721 



Mandja women, showing their method of carrying the baby 722 



Women with elongated lips : Shari river 723 



Women with elongated lips (profile) 724 



Women on the Shari river, showing extension of lips at various ages 725 



Woman of the Lower Shari : two wooden disks were inserted in the lips 726 



Tuaregs with their typical face screens 727 



Great mud barns for storing grain on the Upper Niger 728 



Headdress of Fulbeh women on the Niger 729 



Caravan entering Timbuctu 730 



A Moor of Timbuctu 731 



A woman of Timbuctu 732 



Timbuctu children 733 



A girl 733 



A street in Dj enne 734 



Djenne : Timbuctu's sister city ." 735 



The olive orchard beneath which the city of Tralles lies buried 743 



A limekiln among the ruins of Tralles 744 



A typical plowman of Asia Minor 747 



A view inside the theatre, Hierapolis 748 



The cascades at Hierapolis 75° 



Another view of the cascades 75* 



The baths at Hierapolis 753 



Hierapolis : the mineral springs 754 



City of the dead - 756- 



