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PREFACE TO GERMAN EDITION, v

PREFATORY NOTE TO THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION, vii

INTRODUCTORY ESSAY BY THE EDITOR, xv

THE BIRD-BERGS OF LAPLAND.

The legend of Scandinavia’s origin--The harvest of the sea--The doves of Scandinavia--Eider-holms and bird-bergs--The nesting of the eider-duck--Razor-bills and robber-gulls--Millions of birds--(Notes, pp. 565-566), 33

THE TUNDRA AND ITS ANIMAL LIFE.

High tundra and low tundra--The jewels of the tundra--The flora of the tundra--The Arctic fox--The lemming--The reindeer--The birds of the tundra--Mosquitoes--(Notes, pp. 566-568), 63

THE ASIATIC STEPPES AND THEIR FAUNA.

The steppe in summer and in winter--The coming of spring--The rendezvous in the reeds--The marsh-harrier--The home of larks--Jerboa and souslik--The archar sheep--The kulan and the ancestry of the horse--(Notes, pp. 568-571), 86

THE FORESTS AND SPORT OF SIBERIA.

An ice-wilderness or not--The forest zone--Axe and fire--The pines--Hunting and trapping--The elk, the wolf, and the lynx--Sable and other furred beasts--Bear-hunting and bear-stories--(Notes, pp. 571-573), 120

THE STEPPES OF INNER AFRICA.

The progress of the seasons--A tropical thunderstorm--Night in the steppes--Spiders, scorpions, and snakes--Mudfish and other sleepers--Cleopatra’s asp--Geckos--The children of the air--The bateleur eagle--The ostrich--The night-jar--The mammals of the steppe--Stampede before a steppe-fire--(Notes, pp. 573-576), 168

THE PRIMEVAL FORESTS OF CENTRAL AFRICA.

Spring in the forest--The beautiful Hassanie--The baobab--Climbers and twiners--The forest birds and their voices--Sociable birds--Conjugal tenderness--Salt’s antelope--River monsters--A rain-lake--Hosanna in the highest--(Notes, pp. 576-578), 201

MIGRATIONS OF MAMMALS.

Black rats and brown--Cousin man’s kindness to the monkeys--Migration of mountain animals--The restlessness of the reindeer--Wandering herds of buffaloes--The life of the kulan--Travellers by sea--Flights of bats--The march of the lemmings--(Notes, pp. 578-581), 234

LOVE AND COURTSHIP AMONG BIRDS.

Are birds automata?--The battles of love--Different modes of courtship--Polygamy--Life-long devotion--(Notes, p. 581), 259

APES AND MONKEYS.

Sheikh Kemal’s story--The monkey question--A general picture of monkey life--Marmosets and other New World monkeys--Dog-like and man-like Old World monkeys--Monkeys as pets--The true position of monkeys--(Notes, pp. 581-583), 282

DESERT JOURNEYS.

An appreciation of the desert--The start of the caravan--The character of the camel--A day’s journey--Oases--Simoom and sand storms--Fata morgana--The peace of night--(Note, p. 583), 318

NUBIA AND THE NILE RAPIDS.

Egypt and Nubia contrasted--Wady Halfa and Philæ--The three great cataracts--Journey up and down stream--The Nile boatmen--History of Nubia--(Notes, pp. 583-584), 356

A JOURNEY IN SIBERIA.

Russian hospitality--A tedious journey--An excursion into Chinese territory--Sport among the mountains--Journeying northwards--On the track of splenic fever--(Notes, p. 584), 390