Illustrations

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The Great Rainbow Natural Bridge of Southern Utah Frontispiece
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Map of Islands of the Pacific Facing 1
Mohave Desert, California. Buzzards' Roost 6
Gila monsters 9
A giant cactus in Arizona 12
The Roosevelt Dam, Arizona, showing south bridge and spillway 17
Shoshone Project, Wyoming 25
The Grand Canyon of the Colorado 29
Grand View Trail 33
The Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, looking down canyon from Grand Point 37
The Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Mammoth Hot Springs, Summit Pools 45
The Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Beehive Geyser 47
The Brontosaurus 53
The Allosaurus 55
Twenty mule borax team 61
The Oroya Railroad, Peru, showing four sections of the road 73
Llamas resting 77
Silver-smelting works at Cassapalca, on the Oroya Railroad, Peru, 13,600 feet high 79
Fishing for sturgeon through the ice of the Ural River. Catching the material for caviare 83
Gathering salt at the mouth of the Ural River 87
Driving over the tundra in winter 91
Train on the steppes of Russia 95
Dunkar Spiti, Himalaya Mountains, India 99
The yak not only serves as a beast of burden, but furnishes milk, butter, and meat 103
Khaibar Pass, the gateway to India 107
A group of Arabs with their dromedaries 111
On the sands of the desert 117
A caravan crossing the desert on the road to Jaffa 125
Peary's ship, the Roosevelt 137
Commander Robert E. Peary and three of his eskimo dogs on the Roosevelt 141
Musk ox 144
An antarctic summer scene 149
The penguin defies the cold 153
Street in Reykjavik, Iceland 163
North Cape, Iceland 167
Stone igloos on the bleak coast of Greenland 171
A large iceberg 173
A group of Eskimos in south Greenland 174
The Straits of Magellan. Cape Pilar is the extreme western end 177
Fuegians 179
The Everglades of Florida

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