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Map of the Philippine Islands, 23 x 36 inches Supplement

Map illustrating the obstacles to land transportation which rendered early commerce between Occident and Orient extremely difficult 400

Diagram showing the growth of the world during the nineteenth century 402

Diagram. A comparison of the Orient and the remainder of the world in area, population, railroads, telegraphs, and commerce 403

The successive advances of Russia to the Pacific 404

Transportation in China. Camel train outside of the Pekin wall 405

Military gate of Pekin wall 405

An illustration of the enormous development of the commerce of Japan resulting from the construction of railways 406

The network of railroads covering India today and the resultant vast increase in her commerce 407

Railways constructed and proposed in China 408

Telegraph lines of China in 1904 409

A comparison of Japan, India, and China today 410

Elephants with howdahs (Bangkok) which have been eclipsed in popularity by the American trolley car on opposite page 412

Bangkok tramway 413

The awakening of the East. A school for girls, Bangkok 414

A group of Chinese watching an American railway engineer 415

Transportation in China 416.

On one of the interior canals of China 417

Transportation in China. A country cart 418

Transportation in China 419

The air and water currents of the Pacific 420

Japanese peasants watching a wrestling contest 433

Map of the Panama Canal (25 x 33 inches) Supplement

Unfinished cuts of the world's greatest canal 451

Rock cut at Bas Obispo 452

The Culebra Cut, looking north 453

Dredge at Gargona 454

A steam shovel at work in the Culebra Cut 458

Panama soldiers at a village on the Bayano River, guarding the pass on the route from Colombia 461

Landing pigs in the harbor of Panama City 465

Indian "dug-outs" on the Chagres River bringing bananas, the chief export of Panama, to Gatun 466

Diagram showing yearly amount of rainfall in inches on the Panama Isthmus 467

Map of the region of the Panama Canal ( 24 x 33 inches) Supplement

Paikent, a sand-buried city 499

A sand dune advancing across the desert 500

A mosque of medieval Samarkand 501

Folds in the limestone in the Sugun Valley west of Shor Kul, looking west 502

Limestone gorge of the western Kichik Alai 503

The Kirghiz in the Alia Valley 504

Map showing number of children under 5 years of age to 1,000 females 15 to 49 years of age, 1890 506

Map showing number of children under 5 years of age to 1,000 females 15 to 49 years of age, 1900 507