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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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1 An ocean steamer in the Shat-el-Arab
2 On the deck of a Tigris River steamer
3 Wharves at Basra
4 Koofahs on the Tigris River
5 Making a koofah
6 Palm gardens
7 Houses of mud brick in a town on the Tigris
8 Drawing water from the river to use on the fields
9 A kelek on the Tigris
10 An asphalt spring
11 A minaret
12 A bridge of boats at Bagdad
13 A crowded Bagdad street
14 Plowing
15 Herding sheep on a ricky hillside
16 Weaving black cloth for Arab tents
17 Making muc bricks near the Tigris. Bricks drying in the hot sun.
18 Camel-riding traders in the desert
19 Trading in a city market place
20 Digging among the ruins of an ancient city
21 A Bagdad bazaar
22 A khan
23 A loaded camel train in Mosul, a city on the Tigris
24 The crumbled remains of the city of Babylon
25 A home of desert Arabs
26 A village in the land of the Tigris
27 Interesting homes in Bagdad
28 An airplane view of Bagdad from a height of a few hundred feet
29 An airplane view of Bagdad from a height of nearly half a mile
30 Drawing made from airplane view of Bagdad
31 Drawing showing Bagdad and more than twenty-five miles of the Tigris
32 An airplane view of a seacoast
33 Drawing made from the airplane view of a seacoast
34 Map of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and the Persian Gulf
35 Map of "the land of the five seas"
36 The sea
37 Map for the journey through the Persian Gulf
38 Map in Figure 37 drawn on a smaller scale
39 A picture of a ball
40 First part of the world map
41 Diagram of curved lines
42 A garden of date palms
43 A map for the journey to the Nile
44 Muscat, a town on the coast of Arabia
45 A flock of sheep in the desert
46 An Arabian coast town, less modern than the one shown in Figure 44
47 The Arabian coast near the southern entrance to the Red Sea
48 Part of the Suez Canal
49 First diagram for the game of "Captain"
50 Second diagram for the game of "Captain"
51 Third diagram for the game of "Captain"
52 Plowing an irrigated field near the Nile
53 Good pasturage among palm trees in Egypt
54 A sakieh. Taking water from the Nile for the fields
55 Fertile fields between the banks of the Nile and the bordering deserts
56 Egyptian farmers lifting water for their crops by means of shadufs
57 Goods brought to the Nile village to be shipped on river boats
58 Nile boats
59 A pyramid
60 Rocky bluffs along the Nile
61 In a Cairo street
62 An encampment of wandering shepherds
63 An oasis garden in a sandy desert
64 Climbing a date palm tree
65 The first cataract of the Nile
66 The great dam at Assuan
67 Natives of the upper Nile
68 A zebra at home
69 A rhinoceros in the grasslands
70 An African antelope, another animal of the grassy plains
71 A captured buffalo
72 Homes of natives near the White Nile
73 The acacia, a thorny tree of the grasslands
74 Abdullah pointing to the zenith
75 Abdullah pointing to the horizon
76 Abdullah pointing to the sun at noon on June 21
77 Abdullah pointing to the sun at noon on December 22
78 Mingi pointing to the sun at noon on December 22
79 Mingi pointing to the sun at noon on June 21
80 A map for the journeys along the Congo
81 A native village on the shore of Lake Victoria
82 Ready for the hunt
83 Hunters bringing home the spoils
84 A hippopotamus
85 Drawings of an oil palm tree, a manioc plant, and a banana tree
86 A "clearing" in a forest near the Congo
87 A native village in the Congo region
88 Drawings of Congo houses, and of museum materials
89 Huts thatched with banana leaves
90 Dragging huge timbers out of a forest in the land of the Congo
91 Moambu treading oil from the fruit of the oil palm in a hollowed-log trough
92 A wood-burning engine on a railroad in the Congo region
93 Bilumbu's father making a fish net from palm tree fibers
94 Carrying bananas through a Congo forest; a bridge of vines
95 Congo natives in a dugout canoe towing logs roped with vines
96 A Congo forest trail
97 A map for the Mediterranean journeys
98 The Rock of Gibraltar
99 A part of the town of Tangier, on the Barbary Coast
100 A part of the Barbary Coast city of Algiers
101 An aged olive tree
102 An old, old olive grove
103 In a Mediterranean orchard
104 The Riviera coast town of San Remo
105 Riviera flowers to be gathered for perfume
106 Naples, Vesuvius, and the bay
107 Macaroni drying
108 Vineyards in northeastern Italy
109 An Italian wheat field
110 Orchards in Italy
111 Marble quarries at Carrara
112 Fishing boats and nets
113 A view of the Strait of Messina from the city of Messina
114 Demetra's village
115 A rocky pasture in mountainous Greece
116 Herding goats in Greece
117 The port of Genoa
118 A street in Genoa
119 Airplane view of a part of Milan
120 Lake Como, Italy, and the city of Como
121 Little hillside fields above a Swiss village
122 The city of Lugano and Lake Lugano
123 A picturesque farm home in Switzerland
124 Mouth of St. Gotthard Tunnel and the entering railroad
125 St. Bernard dogs
126 Mountain climbers in the high Alps
127 The Aletsch Glacier
128 A rough part of the Rhone Glacier
129 Map of part of Switzerland
130 Part of the city of Lucerne
131 A large power plant at Amsteg, in a beautiful Swiss mountain valley
132 A village and farm lands in a high valley in Switzerland
133 A high mountain pasture, or "alp"
134 A herder carrying a cheese down from a high mountain pasture
135 Dragging hay down for winter feeding
136 Racks for drying grain
137 A map for journeys to the north
138 Looking across the Middle Rhine
139 Cologne, on the Lower Rhine
140 Vineyards on a terraced slope of the Middle Rhine Valley
141 Across the Middle Rhine from Coblenz
142 Pastures of the Netherlands
143 Hauling two products of the polders
144 Barges loaded with hay on a Dutch canal
145 Uploading cheeses from a canal barge in Amsterdam
146 A dike town in the Netherlands
147 A Dutch fishing village
148 On the Zuider Zee in winter
149 Jan and his shadow in June
150 Jan and his shadow in December
151 Coastal dunes and the village they help to protect from the sea
152 A glacier and waterfall in mountainous Norway
153 Boats and houses built of lumber from Norwegian forests
154 The busy water front at Bergen
155 Near the wharves in Bergen
156 The harvest of the sea
157 Farms in a beautiful Norwegian valley
158 Haying in Norway
159 Milkmaids on a winding mountain road
160 A part of Christiania, Norway's chief city
161 The sun in the northern sky, exactly at midnight
162 Reindeer, the chief support of many Laplanders
163 Laplanders and their summer home
164 Drawing of a plate
165 Peary on board the Roosevelt
166 Struggling over the polar ice
167 Amundsen at the South Pole
168 A waste of snow and ice in the Far South, glittering in the summer sun
169 Shackleton's disabled ship fast in the polar ice in midwinter
170 A drawing of the globe to show a few places halfway between the poles
171 A drawing of the globe showing many places halfway between the poles
172 A drawing of the globe showing the equator
173 World map
174 Harvesting wheat in South Africa
175 World map
176 Dog team on frozen river in northern Asia
177 Farm lands in central eastern Asia
178 A home amid palms in southern Asia
179 The world map
180 An airplane view of orchards and farms in southeastern Australia
181 Tropical forest in northeastern Australia
182 Map of the Western Hemisphere
183 A stock farm in the central part of North America
184 A forest in a hot, wet part of southern North America
185 A winter scene in northern North America
186 Tropical forest in northern South America
187 A stock farm in southern South America
188 Map of the Western Hemisphere
189 Map of the Eastern Hemisphere