Bride's mother and bridesmaid adorning the bride for the wedding

Greetings for newcomers on the pier alongside the Pacific Mail S.S. "CHINA," at Yokohama, Japan

Pupils of a school for girls, Yokohama, Japan

Venice, Italy - the pride of the sea, the Doge's Palace and sea front

A scene of desolation : Ottajano [i.e., Ottaviano], swept by volcanic ashes from Vesuvius, Italy

Steelyards and scales found at Pompeii, National Museum, Naples, Italy, room of small bronzes

Count Borromeo's famous terraced gardens, Isolo Bella, Lake Maggiore, Italy

Beautiful home of Vettiorum (buried August 24, A.D. 79), Pompeii, Italy

The Bridge of Sighs--Venice, Italy, only a step from Palace to prison

Typical street and Mohammedan homes at Bagdad

Navigation at Bagdad - kufas, [round boats], meeting European steamer

Monumental ruin of palace of Parthian king at Ctesiphon, near Bagdad

The bridge of boats at Mosul connecting with Stone Bridge

Primitive native life of India--Hindu women grinding at the mills

Fakir on his bed of spikes - most spectacular performance of a religious fanatic, India

Traditional "Garden of Eden," east over the Euphrates, 250 miles N.W. of Babylon

Picturesque Hillah on the Euphrates below Babylon

Tent of Arab chief, and water buffaloes, on flooded Babylonian plain

North past the principal street, Bagdad, where the Jews and Moslems throng

Picturesque homes of wealthy Jews, along the Tigris in north Bagdad

East over Tigris to Nineveh showing wool-laden keleks and arched bridge, Mosul