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INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS 



Alaska (continued) : Page 



An Eskimo and two of his dogs 320 



A typical camp in Alaska 325 



Bear hunting as it is actually practiced 326 



Bear Lake Pass looking toward Bear Lake 



Valley 323 



Bear partly skinned 327 



Busy day in an Alaskan camp preparing moose 



heads 630 



Caribou killed on the flat top of a high moun- 

 tain 627 



Dall's sheep near the head of Nabesna River. 628 



Delta of the Alsek River 598 



Discharge of the Alsek Glacier, Mount Fair- 

 weather in the background 605 



Elevated cache for provisions 599 



Fairbanks town, Tanana Valley, on July 4, 



1908 590 



Four Aleut Indians and a three-hatch native 



skin canoe 318, 319 



Four bear shot at one time 329 



Fresh-killed bear 327, 328 



Fur-seal rookery on Saint George Island, 



Pribilof 586 



Fur-seals: Saint Paul Island, Bering Sea.... 632 



Group of Eskimo . 317 



Growing forest on Malaspina Glacier, near 



Mount Saint Elias 592 



Hair-cutting in camp 325 



Harem of fur-seals: Pribilof Islands, Bering 



Sea 633 



Indian woman and child at door of "bara- 



bara" or sod hut 320, 321 



Kadiak bear, Kadiak Island 635 



Landing a calf from the steamer at Kadiak.. 316 

 Lining canoe up-stream from the boat on the 



shore to the camp 322 



* Marking the Alaskan boundary 602 



Miners, prospectors, and surveyors are al- 

 lowed to kill game in any season 600 



Moose which fell conveniently on bank of a 



tributary of the Yukon 626 



Mosquito veil 607 



Mountain peaks near Yaldez 315 



Mountains surrounding Disenchantment Bay. 604 

 Mount Cook, Mount Yancouver, and Mount 



Hubbard 601 



Naturalists returning with eleven caribou 



skulls: Glacier Mountain 631 



Near the boundary crossing of the White 



River 603 



Observing from "Black Tip," a triangulation 



point near the coast 594 



Placer mining on Ester Creek, near Fair- 

 banks 588 



Photos of Fire Island, Perry Peak, McCul- 



loch Peak, and Castle Island 196, 197 



Point on the 141st meridian 600 



Running loaded canoe down-stream after 



breaking camp 322 



Sea lions disporting on Castle Island 199 



Sea lions: Pribilof Islands, Bering Sea 634 



Skinning a bear 329 



Smoke-house for protection against mosqui- 

 toes and gnats 600 



Alaska (continued) : Page 

 Solan geese flying through steam and fumes 



of Perry Peak and Castle Island 198 



Starting on a 40-mile trip to the Indian vil- 

 lage at the mouth of Bear River. 323 



Taking advantage of a fair wind 600 



Team of setter dogs and their white owner on 



the divide between the Pacific and Bering 



Sea 315 



Three-hatch "bidarki" or "kyak" (native skin 



canoe) 318 



Three scows full of salmon for the cannery 



at Chignik 316 



Tracking up the Alsek River 597 



Tripod observing platform and triangulation 



signal, near Yakutat Bay 595 



Type of aluminum-bronze monument used on 



the more important points along the 



boundary 606 



Type of half-breeds, Siwash Indian-Swede... 321 



Views of Perry Peak in June, 1906 195 



Young bear at play and at rest 330-333 



Asia — Central: 



Afghan cultivators at a village near Kafir 



Kala 869 



Afghan soldier in uniform 792 



Baking bread in Seyistan, on the Afghan 



border 874 



Caravan-serai in the desert of eastern Persia. 789 



Comfortable Persian villager 796 



Commandant and soldiers at Kafir Kala 871 



Commandant of Kafir standing outside the 



walls of the fort 872 



Erecting a Turkoman tent 758 



Gate of the fort of Kafir Kala 874 



Group of Afghan nomads 794 



Group of Turkomans 759- 



Hakim Kahn, the Afghan chief of Kuzzil 



Islam 87a 



Inhabitants of the village with the round 



loop-holed tower 873 



Kafir Kala, the most important fort on the 



western frontier of Afghanistan 871 



Kurdish women and children on the northern 



frontier of Persia 759 



Kurdish wrestling match outside a mountain 



village 756 



Old Afghan chiefs beside their tents: Russian 



officer on the left 869 



Persian village of domed mud houses covered 



with snow 797 



Persian village on the Afghan frontier, with 



loop-holed tower 873- 



Ploughing with humped bullocks and wooden 



plough: Afghan border 793- 



Poverty-stricken Persian family 794. 



Prosperous Afghans and their sons 872 



Ruins in the upper portion of the Merv Oasis. 754. 

 Ruins of an old mosque in the lower portion 



of the Merv Oasis 754 



Sacred platform decked with wooden birds... 797 

 Sample of the mountainous southern border 



of Transcaspia 751 



Scenes along the Transcaspian railroad in the 



midst of the desert 752 



Soldiers of Hakim Kahn 870 



