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 me NATIONAL 



OGRAPHIC 

 MAGAZINE 



Vol. XIX 



APRIL, 1908 

 CONTENTS 



No. 4 



Along the Old Inca Highway. By Harriet Chalmers Adams. 

 Illustrated. 



Home-making by the Government. By C. J. Blanchard, Statis- 

 tician U. S. Reclamation Service. Illustrated. 



Medieval Tales of the Lop Basin in Central Asia. By 



Ellsworth Huntington; Illustrated. 



The Key to the Pacific. By Hon. George C. Perkins, U. S. 

 Senator from California. 



Hawaii for Homes. By H. P. Wood. 



Why Nik-ko is Beautiful. By J. H. De Forest, Sendal, Japan. 

 Illustrated. 



Published by the National Geographic Society 



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Washington, D. C. 

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

 Copyright, 1908, by the National Geographic Society, Washington, D. C. All rights reserved 



