K'S _Travels into the Interior of
Africa_, 1799.

Search for a North-West Passage: Parry's Ships cutting through
the Ice into Winter Harbour, 1819 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
From a Drawing by WILLIAM WESTALL, A.R.A., of a Sketch by
Lieut. BEECHEY, a member of the expedition. From PARRY'S
_Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of the North-West
Passage_.

Lhasa and the Potala . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520
From a Photograph by a member of Younghusband's Expedition to
Thibet.

At the North Pole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534
From the Photograph in Admiral PEARY'S book _The North Pole_.

Captain Roald Amundsen taking Sights at the South Pole . . . . . 544
From a Photograph.

Acknowledgment is due to the courtesy of Mr. John Murray and the
_Illustrated London News_ for the photograph taken at the South Pole,
facing page 544; to Admiral Peary for that taken at the North Pole,
facing page 534; and to Sir Ernest Shackleton and Mr. Heinemann for
the colour-plate of the _Nimrod_. Permissions have also been granted
by Mr. John Murray (for illustrations from Livingstone's books and
Admiral McClintock's _Voyage of the Fox_); by Messrs. Macmillan (for
the colour-plate of the Polos leaving Venice, from the Bodleian); and
by Messrs. Sampson, Low, Marston, & Co. (for illustrations from Sir
H. M. Stanley's books).

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT

PAGE
The Garden of Eden with its Four Rivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
From the Hereford Map of the World.

Babylonian Map of the World on Clay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
In the British Museum.

The oldest known Ships: between 6000 and 5000 B.C. . . . . . . . 4
From a pre-Egyptian Vase-painting.

Egyptian Ship of the Expedition to Punt, about 1600 B.C. . . . . 7
From a Rock-carving at Der el Bahari.

The Ark on Ararat, and the Cities of Nineveh and Babylon . . . . 8
From LEONARDO DATI'S Map of 1422.

A Phoenician Ship, about 700 B.C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
From a Bas-relief at Nineveh.

Map of the Voyage of the Argonauts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

The Pillars of Hercules, as shown in a Mediaeval Map . . . . . . 20
HIGDEN'S Map of the World. 1360 A.D.

The Pillars of Hercules, as shown in the Anglo-Saxon Map of the
World, 10th centu