vel for diamonds in the Kimberley mine 223

A Malay girl 229

A Malay boy 231

A giant fig-tree, 140 feet in circumference 235

A mother kangaroo with a young kangaroo in her pocket 237

An Australian emeu 239

Homestead and station in Young district, Australia 243

The Great Barrier Reef of Australia, the most remarkable animal
structure in the world 247

Melbourne is the largest city of Australia and contains nearly half a
million people 257

Maori pa, or village 263

The Petrifying Geyser, New Zealand 265

Native canoe, Fiji Islands 275

General view of Volcano House, Kilauea, Hawaii 279

A lake of white-hot molten lava. The volcano of Mauna-Loa, Hawaii 281

Native ploughing in rice-field, Guam. One may find rice-farms as
skilfully cultivated as those of Japan or China 287

The carabao, harnessed to a dray or wagon, shuffles along 291

The harbor of the city. Scene on the Pasig River, Manila 295

Extracting indigo in Ilocos Province, Philippine Islands 297

Manila hemp as it is brought in from the country 299

A breadfruit tree in Java 303

Coffee-drying in Java 309

Natives in the jungle, Sumatra 313

A jungle, scene in Sumatra 316

WEALTH OF THE WORLD'S WASTE PLACES AND OCEANIA

[Illustration: Islands of the Pacific.]

PART I

WEALTH OF THE WORLD'S WASTE PLACES

INTRODUCTION

There is a great wealth of literature about what we call the world's
productive lands--that is, the densely peopled lands that yield grain,
meat, sugar, fruit, and all the various foodstuffs. In any well-equipped
library we may find great numbers of useful books that will tell us all
about the places where cotton, wool, and silk are grown, or where coal
and iron are mined. All t