| | Dr. Sven Hedin in Tibetan Dress | [Frontispiece] |
| I. | Berlin | [6] |
| II. | Constantinople | [13] |
| III. | Oil-Well at Balakhani | [36] |
| IV. | A Persian Caravanserai | [43] |
| V. | The Author's Riding Camel, with Gulam Hussein | [46] |
| VI. | Tebbes | [51] |
| VII. | A Baluchi Nomad Tent | [76] |
| VIII. | Srinagar and the Jhelum River | [87] |
| IX. | Digging for Water in the Takla-makan | [94] |
| X. | The Author's Boat on the Yarkand River | [102] |
| XI. | Tashi-lunpo | [125] |
| XII. | Simla | [131] |
| XIII. | The Taj Mahal | [134] |
| XIV. | Benares | [136] |
| XV. | Tame Elephants and their Drivers | [147] |
| XVI. | On the Canton River | [159] |
| XVII. | The Great Wall of China | [165] |
| XVIII. | Gate in the Walls of Peking | [176] |
| XIX. | A Japanese Ricksha | [189] |
| XX. | Fujiyama | [190] |
| XXI. | The Great Buddha at Kamakura | [192] |
| XXII. | A Sedan-Chair in Seoul | [199] |
| XXIII. | The Kremlin, Moscow | [208] |
| XXIV. | Paris | [216] |
| XXV. | Napoleon's Tomb | [219] |
| XXVI. | The Colosseum, Rome | [228] |
| XXVII. | Pompeii | [233] |
| XXVIII. | The Great Pyramids at Ghizeh | [238] |
| XXIX. | A Hippopotamus | [254] |
| XXX. | The Fight on the Congo | [294] |
| XXXI. | A Group of Beduins | [300] |
| XXXII. | "Sky-Scrapers" in New York | [323] |
| XXXIII. | Niagara Falls | [331] |
| XXXIV. | Cañons on the Colorado River | [339] |
| XXXV. | Cotopaxi | [344] |
| XXXVI. | Indian Huts on the Amazons River | [353] |
| XXXVII. | A Coral Strand | [369] |
| XXXVIII. | Country near Lake Eyre | [373] |
| XXXIX. | The "Fram" | [393] |