The National Geographic Magazine

ACROSS THE MIDI IN A CANOE: TWO
AMERICANS PADDLE ALONG THE
CANALS OF SOUTHERN FRANCE FROM
THE ATLANTIC ΤΟ THE MEDITER-
RANEAN. BY MELVILLE CHATER...... 127

Acteon Peak, St. Helena Island....

Actors, Sicilian, re-enact dramas of the past

(color insert) Plate XII, 432-449

Adams, Harriet Chalmers. An Altitudinal Journey

Through Portugal

567

Adelocephala isias (Bdv.): Moth.. ..121, (color

insert) Plate XIV, 88-119

(text) 545, 548

103, 107, color

insert) Plate III, 88-119

Aden, Arabia..

Admiral, Red (butterfly).

Aelple, Liechtenstein

634

Aerial photographs, Importance of..... (text) 476, 477

Aero Club of Norway, Norge (Airship) and the.. 183

AIR CONQUEST: FROM THE EARLY DAYS

OF GIANT KITES AND BIRDLIKE GLID-

ERS, THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SO-

CIETY HAS AIDED AND ENCOURAGED

THE GROWTH OF AVIATION.

Air, Latin America from the. By Maj. Herbert

insert) Plate XV, 314-323

234, 238, 240

ill. (aerial view) 239

Airplanes, Exploring with.

Airplanes, German Schadta, Transportation by:

Bogotá, Colombia..

....471, ill. 458

Airplanes: Mississippi flood area........ .248, 249, 251

260, 272, ill. 250

Akragas, Girgenti (Sicily) formerly called.. .... 449

(color insert) Plates VIII, XV, 432-449

Alamo (mission): San Antonio, Tex.. ..451, ill. 450

Alaska, Expeditions north of.

.234, 242

Alaska, Norge (Airship) and. ....177, 191, 198, 201

206, 207, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, ill. 212-214

Alaskan Alpine (Erebia disa Thun.): Butterfly.. 113

(color insert) Plate IX, 88-119

Albacores (fish)..

(text) 18, ill. 68

Albanian girl, Necklace of gold coins worn by an

ill. 754

Albanian Greeks, Descendants of: Sicily....(color

insert) Plate III, 432-449

Alboquerque (Albuquerque), Affonso d': Portu-

guese conqueror in India.... (text) 544, 548, 550

600, ill. 545

Alcobaca, Monastery of: Portugal.

600

Alcobaca, Portugal, Shop near

(color

insert) Plate XIV, 550-567

Alcock and Brown, Non-stop flight of: Newfound-
land to Ireland

Alessandrini, ( ): Amundsen-Ellsworth-Nobile

Alexander the Great's army, Kanjutis (race) may

be descendants of..

Alexandria, Egypt.

Algarve (El Gharb, the West of the Moors) Prov-

ince, Portugal

193, 204

"Aerodrome," Langley's pioneer.. .ill. 236, 238

Affonso Henriques, first King of Portugal..... 581

595, 596, 610

Afghanistan, Wakhan Pamir in..

381

Africa

...507, 516, 517, 518, 520-521

523, 524, 528, 531, 533, 543, 590, 593, 601, 608

610, 745, ill. 516, 518-520, 522, 524-528

Africa, French West......21, 23, 24-25, 30, ill. 31

Africa, Senegambian: Sindbads of Science. By

George Finlay Simmons.

357

Alemtejo (the Other Side of the Tagus) Province,

African Sunbirds, Specimens of..

African tribes, Rock salt and live animals once
used as currency by..

Agapema anona (Ottol.): Moth.

(text) 744

125, (color

insert) Plate XVI, 88-119

(text) 383

-537, 544, 605

Agde, France

Agen, France

166
133-134, 158

Agencies, Chinese caravan: Kuchengtze, Sinkiang

(text) 421, 423

Agoutis: Barro Colorado Island..332, 338, 345, ill. 343

Agriculture: Liechtenstein..

(text) 616, 617

ill. 618, 629, 630

Agriculture: Sicily

449

once

Agrigentum to the Romans, Girgenti, Sicily was

. (color insert) Plate XV, 432-449

Agua (Volcano), Guatemala.

Agulhas Current, Atlantic Ocean.

Ailanthus Silk-moth (Samia cynthia Dru.)

468

ill. 87, (color insert) Plate XVI,

Ain Farah, Palestine, Water pumped from...

Ain Hawara, Egypt....

Alhambra: Granada, Spain

Al-Husseini, Haj Amin, President of Supreme

Moslem Council: Jerusalem.

ill. 662

(color insert) Plate IV, 682-707

Aljubarrota, Plateau of: Portugal.

Alkali plains: Turfan Depression..

Allegheny River (Pa.), Coal transported down.. 277

Alliance, British-Portuguese..

.569, 589

Alligator pear, Guatemala home of the.. (text) 455, 456

Almeida, Francisco de: First Viceroy of India 548, 550

Almonds, Groves of: Sicily..... (color insert)

520

Plate II, 432-449

125 Alope Sphinx (Erinnyis alope Dru.): Moth... 117
88-119
(color insert) Plate XI, 88-119

667 Alpine, Alaskan (butterfly)....

113

739 Alpine glaciers, Rhine (River) fed by.

..605, ill. 609

..596, 598

597

417

611

Alsace, France: In Smiling Alsace Where France

Has Resumed Sway..

Altai Mountains, Mongolia. ......423, 425, 430, ill. 428

Altar, Petty, for the golden calf: Hill of Aaron.. 723

ill. 733

Altar screen (iconostasis): Greek Cathedral, Jeru-

salem

ill. 675

Altars, Church: Mount Sinai. ..727, ill. 724, 726, 728

Altitude, Flying at a high..

357, 367, 368

ALTITUDINAL JOURNEY THROUGH POR

TUGAL, AN: RUGGED SCENIC BEAUTY,

COLORFUL COSTUMES, AND ANCIENT

CASTLES ABOUND IN TINY NATION

THAT ONCE RULED A VAST EMPIRE.

BY HARRIET CHALMERS ADAMS.

Amapala, Honduras.

Amatitlán, Lake: Guate.nala.

Amazon (River), Pan American Good Will Flight
crosses the

Amazons of strength, Peasant women are: Portugal 570

587, ill. 569, 572, 576, 584, 587, 591

"Ambans" (subgovernors): Sinkiang.

389

Amélie (Barge): France.......149, 166, ill. 143, 146

America (Airplane): Our Transatlantic Flight. By

Comdr. Richard Evelyn Byrd....

347

America, Shifting of riches from South to West-

ern Europe affects..

544

American Colony, Jerusalem, Student at the

(color insert) Plate XIV, 682-707

American colony: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...

American Copper (Heodes hypophlacas Bdv.):

Butterflies .........99, 103, 111, (color insert)

Plate VII, 88-119

American Embassy: Brazil...

American Embassy officials: Buenos Aires, Ar

gentina

.ill. 480

American Legion (Pathfinder): Three engine air-

plane

350

American Museum of Natural History.. .5, 105

124, 375, 405

243

American Naval Mission: Brazil.

American Red Cross: Great Mississippi Flood of

1927. By Frederick Simpich.

American Saturnids (moths).

Americans: France.

Americans: Latin America.

Antennæ, Butterflies' and moths'. .77, 78, ill. 78, 79

Antony, Mark, Coin showing profile of.....ill. 744

Ants and butterflies..

..91, 95

Ants, Leaf-cutting: Barro Colorado Island.... 342

"Ants, White" (termites), Nest of: Barro Colorado

Island

ill. 344

Apollo, Temple to (ruins): Sicily.

..(color

insert) Plates VI, XVI, 432-449

Appalachian (Mountains), Mississippi Basin

bounded by

Apple trees, Caterpillars that build tents in

(text) 82, 93

Aprons, Alsatian women wearing: France.. (color

insert) Plates II, V, VI, VIII, 168-177

Aqueduct, Roman: Portugal

Aqueducts, Canal: France..

Aquitania, Roman: France.

Arab dress, Charm and dignity of.

Arab headgear, Portuguese women wearing.. (color

insert) Plates VII, XIII, XIV, 550-567

Arab horse, Policeman mounted on an: Portugal 587

Arab horsemanship, Portuguese inheritance of.. 601

Arab-Portuguese horses, Bullfighters use: Portugal 600

Arabas (Chinese carts): Morden-Clark Asiatic Ex-

pedition..

..389, 390, 413, 417, ill. 404

Arabia, Silversmiths from: Palestine..

663

Arabian Sea, References to the....521, 523, 533, 543

Arabic language: Jerusalem..

.637, ill. 664

Arabic, Sephardim speak: Palestine.

Arabic, Swahili language has admixture of..

Arabs: India........ 503, 507, 511, 530, 543, 548, 550

Arabs: Palestine..

.637, 672, 682

Arabs, Papyrus was introduced into Sicily by the

(text) Plate XIV, 432-449

....119. (color

insert) Plate XIII, 88-119

Arbain (Egypt), Oil tanks of..

742

Arcade of the silversmiths: Jerusalem. ..663, 681

Arch: Donkey and dame in a very old frame

(Portugal)

.. ill. 593

Archbishop of the Russian Orthodox Church:

Jerusalem

(color insert) Plate V, 682-707

Arches, Bridge: France... (text) 152, ill. 134, 143, 154

Arches: Jerusalem.... ill. 644, 651, 655, 658, 666, 671

Architecture, Doric: Sicily... (color insert)

Plates I. VIII, XIV, 432-449

Architecture, Feudal: Carcassonne, France.

Amphilonche messanensis: Plankton (color insert)

Plate IV, 290-299

Amphitheaters, Early: France...

...

177

451

Amundsen-Ellsworth-Nobile Expedition: Navigat-

ing the Norge (Airship) from Rome to the

North Pole and Beyond. By Gen. Umberto

Nobile

Amundsen (Capt.), Roald: Polar Explorer.. 177

195, 204, 208, 213, 215, 242

Anáhuacs, Tombs and ruined cities of the: Latin

America

Anastasse, Archbishop of the Russian Orthodox.

478, 479, 480, 481, 483, 485, ill. 474, 475

Andes (Mountains). U. S. Army Airplanes Hurdle
the High: How Latin America Looks from the
Air. By Maj. Herbert A. Dargue.

Anatomy, Butterfly
Andes (Mountains), South America.

451

worth-Nobile Expedition..

Areha, Bullfight: Lisbon, Portugal. .600, ill. 605

Arequipa, Peru..

375, 389, 429

Angle-wing (butterfly)..

ΙΟΙ

Argent, Origin of the word.

Argentina..

...479, ill. 465, 467

752

.451, 474, 483-485, 489

ill. (aerial view) 477. 478, 480

Animal sale day: Portugal..

489

Arica, Chile

481

.256, 258, 260, ill. 246

489

.596, ill. 577

.323, 328

Animals, Floating islands ocean-bound with
marooned: Brazilian jungles..

Animals, Fossil: Bad Lands, S. Dak.

Animals, Marine: Living Jewels of the Sea

(color insert) VIII plates, 290-299

Animals, Medium of exchange: Africa.... (text) 744

Animals: Mississippi flood area.....243, 244, 248, 256

258, 259, 260, 265, 274, 275, ill. 252, 254, 258

264, 268, 269, 276, 284

Animals, Phosphorescent: Noctiluca..
(color

Animals, Wild: A Camera Trapper Describes His

Experiences on an Island in the Canal Zone.. By

Arkansas City, Ark.

Arkansas: Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. By

Frederick Simpich

Arkansas River, Ark.

Armenian bishop: Jerusalem.

Armenian ceramist: Jerusalem.

Armenian Church: Jerusalem.

Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem..

(color insert) Plate VIII, 682-707

Arms permits, Chinese: Morden-Clark Asiatic Ex-
pedition

375
621, 628

(text) 744

insert) Plate VI, 290-299

Army: Liechtenstein

331

590

Art in coin-making, Period of finest.

Art, Religious, and primitive man..

Artagnan, d', References to....

138

.155, 167

543

Arts and crafts: Jerusalem.... ill. 650, 660, 661, 668

Aryan stock, Tribes of: Asia, Central..

Asian Moslems, Director of a hostel

Jerusalem

Asiatic Expedition, Morden-Clark: By

Caravan Across Central Asia. By

Morden

590

707

Asphalt deposits: Alsace, France.

Asphalt: Pitch Lake, Trinidad.

168

Assyria, Clay record of: Promissory

note....ill. 749

Astor, Kashmir, "Grass shoe" worn by Himalayan

people of

.ill. 377

Astorga, Spain.

Astrolabe, Wooden, designed in Prince Henry's

Atala (Eumaeus atala Poey): Butterfly..

(color insert) Plate VII, 88-119

Atalopedes campestris (Bdv.): Butterfly..

(color insert) Plate VIII, 88-119

Atchafalaya Basin, La...... (text) 253, 259, 263, 267

Athens, Greece

432

(color

Athens of Portugal: Coimbra..

insert) Plate II, 550-567

Athens of Sicily, Syracuse was the: (Greek period)

(color insert) Plate XII, 432-449

Atlantic City, Mar del Plata (Argentina) re-

sembles

483-484

"Bacalao" (dried codfish): Portugal... (text) 510, 583

Bad Lands, S. Dak.

305, 323, 328-329, ill. 313

Baddeck, Nova Scotia: Bell, (Dr.) Alexander

Graham

233

Baggage, Camels loaded with: Caravan to Mount

Sinai

..709, 716, 723, 742, ill. 710, 712, 740

Baggage, Girl hotel porters carry: Portugal.... 570

ill. 569

Baggage transport: Morden-Clark Asiatic Expedi

tion ... ...389-390, 409, 417, ill. 404, 405, 413, 419

Baghdad (Iraq), References to......243, 285, 745, 761

Bagpipes: Portugal..

Bags, Animals ate empty: Mississippi

Bagworm (Psyche caterpillar)..

Bahama Islands, Columbus sighted the.

Bahia Blanca, Argentina...

Atlantic Islands, South: Sindbads of Science. By

George Finlay Simmons.

(text) 142

Atlantic Ocean: Map-Route of the Blossom

(Ship)

Band, King accompanied by: Malindi, Africa..

517

528

Atlantic Ocean: Map-Route of Vasco da Gama's

first Voyage

504

Atlantic Ocean: Map Transatlantic route of

Commander Byrd

Atlantic Ocean: Plankton.

Bandipur, Kashmir..

Band, Migratory-bird: U. S. Biological Survey.ill. 52

Banded Purple Butterfly.

..91, 01

375, 376

745

Banks, Scarcity of: East (Near)

(text) 763

146

Banquet, National Geographic Society (1911)..

Banquet, Phantom, Alboquerque's

insert) Plates II, V, VIII, 290-299

Atlantic-to-the Rhône canal line: France.

Atlas Moth

Attack, Mongol: Morden-Clark Asiatic Expedition 426

Attendant, British High Commissioner's personal:

Palestine.... .. (color insert) Plate XII, 682-707

Aude River, France.

(text) 152

(color

insert) Plate IV, 290-299

Austria-Liechtenstein border.

ill. 624

Austria, References to... .611, 613, 620 624, 634

Austro-Prussian War: Liechtenstein..

(text) 628

Automatic sending device, Radio equipped with:

America (Airplane)

Aulosphacra elegantissima: Plankton..

Automobile, Water hazard for an: African bush

351

ill. 33

Automobiles, American: France.

130

Automobiles, Barges loaded with: Mississippi

River

.277, ill. 288

Automobiles: Mississippi flood area...249, 259, ill. 266
Automobiles: Palestine..
.637, 640, 651
Automobiles, Port with no: Buenaventura, Co-
lombia
478
Autophotography, Animal pictures by: Barro
Colorado Island......332, 337, ill. 330, 333, 336

339-341, 343-345

Avalanches menace to travelers: Himalaya Moun-

tains

376

Aveiro, Portugal....584, 591, 593, ill. 583, (color

insert) Plates V. XV, 550-567

Aviation, National Geographic Society Has Aided
and Encouraged the Growth of.

Aviation: Our Transatlantic Flight. By Comdr.

Richard Evelyn Byrd...

233

347

..273, ill. 250

Aviators, Portuguese: Memorial-Cape Verde Is-

lands

ill. 16

.352, 543, 571, 591

ill. (aerial view) 540

.....95, 101

Aviators: Mississippi flood area.

Azores Islands

Azure, Spring (butterfly).

.134. 137, 146, 148, 152

153, 158, 166, ill. 139, 142, 143, 146

Barges, Rescue: Mississippi flood area. .248, 250

251, 259-260, 271, 272, ill. 256, 271

Barlassina, Luigi: Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem

(color insert) Plate II, 682-707

Barr Plain, France: Field shrine (color insert)

Plate II, 168-177

Barranca Bermeja, Colombia.

Barranquilla, Colombia..

Barratt, Roswell, of New York.

Barrels, Wine, on wheels: Portugal.

Barro Colorado Island: A Camera Trapper De-

scribes His Experiences on an Island in the

Canal Zone. By Frank M. Chapman.

Barro Colorado Island, Canal Zone: Map.

Bartlett, (Capt.) Robert A..

Base ports, American: France.

Bashi (leader), Caravan: Morden-Clark

Expedition

331

332

234, 242

.130, ill. 129-131

Asiatic

423

Basilica, Franciscan: Mount of Olives... (text) 639

Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher: Jerusalem.. 672

Basilios, Coptic Bishop of Jerusalem (color insert)

Plate VII, 682-707

Basilodes pepita (Gn.): Moth....117 (color insert)

Plate XII, 88-119

Basket, Children carried in a: Portugal........ill. 587

Baskets, Fish: Portugal...

Bateleur Eagle: Africa

..596, 597, 600, ill. 596, 598

Baths of Diocletian: Rome.

"Battle Abbey" of Portugal.

Page

ill. (aerial view) 187

-597, ill. 596, 598

Battle (Batalha) Monastery: Portugal.

Big Halisidota (Halisidota ingens H. Edw.):

Moth......119, (color insert) Plate XIII, 88-119

597 Big Poplar Sphinx (Pachysphinx modesta Harr.):

(text) 257, 265, 275, 277

Moth

....115, (color insert) Plate XI, 88-119

Biisk, Siberia

.337, 345

.....337, ill. 333

"Bill," or certificate for gold.

765

Bills of exchange, Jews invented: Middle Ages.. 768

314

Bills, Prince pays entertainment: Liechtenstein.. 619

Bingham (peak), Trinidad Island.

.ill. 42

Bio-Bio (River), Chile...

481

Battery, Use of: Autophotography.

Battle Mountain, S. Dak...

Batur Volcano, Bali Island: Lava flow.

Bay, English: Ascension Island.

Bay, Gardiners: New York....

Bay of Bengal, Reference to the.

Bay of Biscay, Reference to the.

Bay of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Bay, Prince's: Trinidad Island.

Bay, Waterfall: Trinidad Island.

Bayou des Glaises, La...

Bayou Teche country, La..

Bays: Brazil...

Bazaar: Egypt..

Bazaars: Asia, Central.

Bazaars: Jerusalem.

.ill. 231

10, ill.

.(text) 252, ill. 280

.32, 34, 494, ill. 46,

.ill. 748

389, 391, ill. 399

(text) 655, 681, ill. 652

.ill. 464

(text) 354

364, 365, ill. 356, 358

Beach: Ver-sur-Mer, France.

Beacons, Radio: Aviation..

Bead money (wampum), Indian.

Beads, Blue, Evil eye averted by: Palestine.

Beads, medium of exchange..

Beadwork, Indian.. (color insert) Plates X, XI, 314-323

Beagle (Ship), References to the.

Beans, Free: Mississippi flood area..

Beads, String-money resembles.

.1, 15

.ill. 282

Black Swallow-tail (Papilio polyxenes Fabr.): But-

terfly....... 101, 109, (color insert) Plate V, 88-119

Black Turbot, or Trigger-fish (Melichthys piceus)

Blaesheim, France, Women of...

(color

insert) Plate VI, 168-177

Blinded Sphinx (Paonias excaecata A. & S.): Moth

(color insert) Plate X, 88-119

Block Island, R. I....

Blood, Acrid, Butterflies with.

Blood, Acrid, Caterpillars with.

Bloodhounds: Mississippi flood

Blossom, Islet called.'"

Blossom, (Mrs.) Dudley S.: Cleveland Museum of

Natural History Expedition..

Blossom (Ship): Cleveland Museum of Natural

History Expedition.........11, 12, 13, 14, 15,

21, 28, 31, 32, 33, 34, 36-37, 43, 54, 57,

68, 71, 74, 75, ill. 2, 3, 6-8, 11, 28, 30, 36-40

48, 59, 72, 75

Blossom (Ship), Route of the: Atlantic Ocean-

map

Blue, Common (butterfly)

Blue-dragon Slug (mollusk)

Blue-eyed Grayling (butterfly).

Beit Jala, Palestine: Apricots..

389

637

Belem, Portugal....

-543, 550, 601, ill. 508

Bell, (Dr.) Alexander Graham: Inventor....233, 236

ill. 235

Bell, Bootblack's: Jerusalem.

.640, ill. 647

640

517

Blue-faced Boobies (Sula dactylathra).

ill. 70, 73,

ill. 648

.621, 625

Blue Surgeon fish, Snaring a: Fernando Noronha

Island

Liechten-

Belt, Silver, Daghestan Jew wearing the Cau-
casian

Bendern, Liechtenstein

Benedictine monastery, Supposed: Vaduz,

Bennett, Floyd: American aviator.

Bermuda Islands, Butterfly migration to the.... 101

Berrio (Ship): Fleet of Vasco da Gama..515, 523, 543

Betel nuts, Chewers of: Calicut.

...504, 537

Bethany, Palestine, Moslem Chief of.

..ill. 642

Bethlehem costume: Palestine.

ill. 641, 643

Bethlehem, Palestine...
.635, 636, 637, 641
642, 643, 667, 669, 707

Bethlehem, Palestine, Men and Women of..(color

insert) Plates XII-XV, XXI, 682-707

Beune River Valley, France..

ill. 136

Beverage vender: Palestine.

. (color

insert) Plate XIX, 682-707

384

. ill. 71

Blue Swallow-tail (Papilio philenor L.): Butterfly 109

(color insert) Plate V, 88-119

Boa Vista, Cape Verde Islands..... (text) 23, ill. 29
Boar, Wild: Portugal..
590
Boardwalk, Rambla is Mar del Plata's: Argentina

483-484

Boat building scene: Louisiana lumberyard..... ill. 271

Boat, Decorated: Portugal (color insert) Plate XV,
550-567

Boat, Fish used as model for: Sicily.. (color insert)

Plate XI, 432-449

Boat, Fishing: Mar del Plata, Argentina....... ill. 478

Boat, Rubber: Byrd's Transatlantic Flight... (text)
355, 365
Boats, Engine: Airship (Norge).
178, 180
ill. 181, 182, 191, 196, 202, 203
Boats, Excursion: New York Bay......ill. (aerial
view) 366

Boats, Fishing, Portuguese cross to Newfoundland

Banks in their...

(text) 510

Boats, Fishing: Sicily.
(color insert)

Plates X, XI, 432-449

Boats: Mississippi flood area...244, 245, 248, 249, 250
251, 256, 259. 264, 266, 272, 273, 275, 277, ill. 246
252, 256, 267, 269, 271, 273, 274, 278-280, 283
Boatswain-bird Islet, off Ascension Island..

Mount Sinai