'©Se NATIONAL 



GEOGRAPHIC 



MAGAZINE 



33: 



DECEMBER, J905 



CONTENTS 



No. 12 



PAGB 



The Parsecs and the Towers of Silence at Bombay, India* By 



"William Thomas Fee, U. S. Consul General, Bombay . . 529 

 China and the United States* By Sir Chentung Liang-Cheng, 

 K* C* M. G., Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo- 

 tentiary from China to the United States 554 



"What Has Been Accomplished by the United States Toward 

 Building the Panama Canal. By Theodore P. Shonts, 

 Chairman of the Isthmian Canal Commission .... 558 

 Russia in Recent Literature. By General A. "W* Greely, Chief 



Signal Officer U. S. A - 562 



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