Scenes from Every Land: A Collection of 250 Illustrations from the National Geographic Magazine, Picturing the People, Natural Phenomena, and Animal Life in All Parts of the World. With One Map and a Short Bibliography of Gazetteers, Atlases, and Books Descriptive of Foreign Countries and Natural HistoryGilbert Hovey Grosvenor |
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Page 219 - THE BEAUTIES OF NATURE AND THE WONDERS OF THE WORLD WE LIVE IN.
Page 213 - Indian Jungle, Rifle and Romance in the. AIR Glasfurd. John Lane. Indian Jungle, Two Years in the. William T. Hornaday. Scribner. Indian Village Community, The. BH BadenPowell. Longmans. Ireland. See "The Isle of the Shamrock.
Page 216 - An Account of Lhasa and the Country and People of Central Tibet and of the Progress of the Mission Sent there by the English Government in the Year 1903-04. Percival Landon. Doubleday, Page & Co. Tibet. See "Land of the Lamas.
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Page 219 - The handy royal atlas of modern geography, exhibiting the present condition of geographical discovery and research in the several countries, empires, and states of the world. By...
Page 208 - The whole kite, impedimenta and all, including the man, weighed about 131 kilograms (288 Ibs.) ; and its greatest length from side to side was 6 meters at the top and 3 meters at the bottom. The sloping sides measured 3 meters, and the length from fore to aft at the square bottom was 3 meters. It is obvious that this kite might be extended laterally at the top to twice its length without forming an immoderately large structure. It would then be 12 meters on the top (39 ft.), and 9 meters...
Page 220 - Imperial 4to, half-bound morocco, price 21. 12$. 6d. THE WORLD-WIDE ATLAS. A Wonderful Production. Containing an Introduction, giving an Account of Geographical Discovery and Political Territorial Changes in the Nineteenth Century, by J. SCOTT KELT-IB, Assistant-Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society, London. Two Frontispieces— the Flags of all Nations and the Time of all Nations ; 112 thoroughly Accurate and carefully-coloured Plates of Maps, Plans of Cities, &c. ; and Complete Index to...
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Page 35 - Chimani," or nose ornament. This is made from a section of a shell about | of an inch thick in the middle, and tapering most beautifully towards the ends. It is accurately made, perfectly round and polished, and a good example would be about a span long. A fine " Chimani " very often has two black rings painted round it, about i inch distant from the end. These things are manufactured by the coast people, and they drift by exchange through the whole country. 297 Very few young blades can afford to...