Harper & Brothers Publishers
New York and London MCMXXIV

TIDE MARKS
Copyright, 1924
By Harper & Brothers
Printed in the U. S. A.
K-Y

To
Richard Durning Holt

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

“All Was Quiet Again, Except for the Flames” [Frontispiece]
A Group of Chinese Firemen Facing p. [22]
Port Said Is More West than East ” [42]
Old and New on the Suez Canal ” [62]
This Sea Was Plainly the Setting for Legend and Fable ” [84]
He Had Skimmed About Singapore in a Jinrickshaw All the Morning ” [100]
The Road Was Empty, Except for a Bullock Cart ” [122]
“One of ’Em Looked at Me as He Came Aboard” ” [140]
He Sits in Front of His Shop in Macassar ” [160]
The Malays Sit on Their Decks, Cooking Breakfast ” [180]
Gathered from the Submarine Gardens of the Tropics ” [200]
Macassar Is a Convenient Meeting Place for Traders ” [220]
The Fighters Stood with Horns Interlocked, Waiting for Each Other to Move ” [232]
He Began to Treat His Foothold Too Punctiliously ” [252]
The Heavy Shadows Were Hardly Disturbed by a Little Oil Lamp ” [264]
It Was a Larger House than the Rest, with an Unusual Length of Irregular Ladder to Its Veranda ” [282]

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