NEW YORK - FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY - PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1905, by
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
Published in October, 1905

CONTENTS

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IN THE LAND OF THE ESKIMOS [9]
IN THE OLD PARK AT NARA [10]
A JAPANESE LADY IN A YAMA-KAGO [12]
THE UNICYCLE OF KOREA [14]
A KOREAN LADY IN HER PALANQUIN [16]
A KOREAN GENERAL IN THE STREETS OF SEOUL [18]
CEBU, IN THE PHILIPPINES [20]
A CARABAO TANDEM IN LUZON [22]
GOING INTO SHANGHAI [24]
IN CANTON, CHINA [26]
THE HANSOM CAB OF COLUMBO, CEYLON [28]
RIDING IN A PALANQUIN IN CALCUTTA [30]
A TWO-STORIED CAMEL WAGON AT AGRA [32]
AN ELEPHANT FROM KHAIPUR [34]
A BULLOCK CART IN AGRA [36]
THE ROYAL CARRIAGE OF REWAH [38]
ON THE ROAD TO JERICHO [40]
THE TOMBS OF THE KHALIFS, EGYPT [42]
THE PYRAMIDS AND THE SPHINX IN EGYPT [44]
ON THE DESERT OF SAHARA [46]
BEFORE THE PETROFSKI PALACE IN A TROIKA [48]
NEAR VILLEFRANCHE [50]
IN SEVILLE [52]
RETURN FROM GRAPE-PICKING, MALAGA [54]
DRIVING A DOG-TEAM IN HOLLAND [56]
A CARRIAGE OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY, SWEDEN [58]
TAKING A RIDE IN THURSO, SCOTLAND [60]
OFF FOR A HOLIDAY IN A JAUNTING-CAR [62]
IN PORTO RICO [64]
IN CUBA [66]
ORMOND BEACH, FLORIDA [68]
THE OLD CITY OF ST. AUGUSTINE [70]
IN NORTH CAROLINA [72]
AN OX-CART IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI [74]
IN CENTRAL PARK [76]
ON AN OSTRICH FARM [78]

IN THE LAND OF THE ESKIMOS

Isn’t this a strange playmate? Would you like to have a bear to play with?

The little Eskimo children on the sledge are having a very happy time. They are merry little children, always smiling and happy, even in the long winter nights when the sun does not shine for months at a time. Wouldn’t you think it queer to have such a long night as that?

When winter is coming their father builds a low, dome-shaped house of ice and snow, with a funny little door, through which one goes into a passageway, then into a big room where the whole family lives. A lamp burns in there, filled with whale blubber or fat, and having a wick of dried turf. This makes a smoky light, but it warms the house, and the Eskimos think their winter home very comfortable.

In the long, cold season the father sometimes makes a sledge like the one in the picture. It is made of pieces of wood, with runners of ivory from the tusks of walrus, and sometimes with pieces of reindeer horn. The whole is fastened together with straps made of skin either from the reindeer or seal. It takes a long time to make a sledge, for the Eskimos do not have very good tools to work with, and have to work slowly. Usually the sledges are drawn by dogs. You have seen pictures of them, haven’t you? As many as twelve often draw a sledge, and they run very rapidly over the ice and snow, while their master keeps them in order with his long-lashed whip.

IN THE OLD PARK AT NARA