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of the Clouds: the World as known at the time of
Drake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Karakakova Bay, where Captain Cook was murdered . . . . . . . . . 334
From the Engraving in the Atlas to COOK'S Voyages.
The Unrolling of the Clouds: the World as known at the time of
Cook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
Mungo Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350 From the Engraving
in PARK'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 century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

A Greek Galley, about 500 B.C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 From a
Vase-painting.
Jerusalem, the Centre of the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 From the
Hereford Map of the World, 13th century.
A Merchant-Ship of Athens, about 500 B.C. . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 From a
Vase-painting.
The Coast of Africa, after Ptolemy (Mercator's Edition), showing
Hanno's Voyage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
A Sketch Map of Alexander's Chief Exploratory Marches from Athens
to Hyderabad and Gaza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .