Southern Collection (page 38)

Marine Life / Jellyfish
A medusa -- a kind of jellyfish? -- found near Nice, southern France

Blunt / Constellations / 87
Constellations of the Southern Hemisphere

Sago Palm Trees 1913
SAGO PALM, southern Asia (metroxylon species)

Indian Bayaderes
Two bayaderes - Hindu dancing girls of southern India - perform before an audience of appreciative males

Chaka, Zulu Chief
CHAKA, (Shaka, Tshaka) Zulu leader who ruthlessly conquered and ruled most of southern Africa : depicted here on a product label for a humdrum domestic product !

Tuticorin, India 1671
Seaport and trading centre, southern India, founded by Portuguese, taken by the Dutch in 1658, acquired by the British in 1825. Native fishing boats are at work

African Elephant Herd
Delelorgue and his companions, travelling in southern Africa, encounter a herd of elephants. Needless to say, they reach for their guns

Adulphe Delegorgue
ADULPHE DELEGORGUE of Douai, French traveller in southern Africa, posing with pipe and gun in his travelling costume

Schillers Birth Place
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Birth place of the German writer, poet and historian in Marbach (Southern Germany)

Schiller Museum / Marbach
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH the Schiller Museum in Marbach, the authors hometown in Southern Germany

Tarascon from the Air
An aerial photograph of Tarascon, southern France

March to Baghdad 1917
British troops on the long march through torrid heat to Baghdad, the Ottoman Empires southern capital, which was taken in March 1917

European Buffalo
Buffalo are used for transport and agriculture throughout southern Europe

Panama Canal - Panama
The harbour of Panama, southern terminal of the proposed canal, which this year is ceded to USA : it will not be completed till 1914

Imperial Canal, China
The southern terminal of the Imperial (or Grand) Canal (Da Yun-he) at Hang-zhou

Bewick - Sea-Bear
(phoca ursinus) Also known as the sea-bear, this is much bigger than the common seal and is found in extreme northern and southern latitudes

Davis Inaugurated
At Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated president of the provisional government of the Southern Confederacy. He would prefer to be commander-in-chief

Jefferson Davis Inflight
Jefferson Davis and his staff are ferried across the Pe-Dee river, North Carolina, after the fall of the Southern Confederacy. Others have to swim their horses across

Otto II Escapes
Emperor Otto II escapes from hostile Greeks by swimming to his ship, after being disastrously thwarted in his attempt to assert his claim to southern Italy

Swedish Betrothal
A Swedish couple from Skane in southern Sweden plight their troth wearing traditional dress, while relatives and friends watch in approval

Drainage / Peckham Sewer
Tunnelling for a sewer in Peckham, London : The bottom of a shaft in the southern high-level sewer

Moffat and Boer
Robert Moffat makes a big impression on Boer farmers and African tribespeople when he starts preaching in southern Africa

Restif - Title Page
LA DECOUVERTE AUSTRALE PAR UN HOMME VOLANT (= Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere by a Flying-Man) by Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne : one of the science-fiction classics

Industry / Textiles / Cotton
A cotton gin in the southern United States

Folklore / Giants
When the Saracens invade southern France, a francophile giant drives them back with his hammer near Castelsarrasin (near Albi)

Tunguska / Kulik
Kulik stands near a section of upright charred trees, Southern swamp, Tunguska

Tunguska Kulik Camp
Kuliks winter quarters near the Southern swamp. New growth rivals the older trees that perished in the blast

Tunguska Epicentre
A close view of the Southern swamp, the centre of the destroyed area

DRAINAGE
London Metropolitan Main Drainage : the southern outfall works at Crossness - opened by Edward, Prince of Wales

Animals and plants of the post-Jurassic era
Scene and landscape, with animals, during the Cretaceous (post-Jurassic) era in southern England

Pyrrhus, King of Epirus, landing at Taranto
Pyrrhus, King of Epirus and Macedon, landing at the Greek city of Taranto (Tarentum) in southern Italy to help defend it against the Romans

Prehistoric reindeer hunt
Men hunting reindeer in prehistoric southern France

Bavarian people in the street, southern Germany
A group of Bavarian people in the street in a town in southern Germany

Kanyakumari (Cape Comorin), southernmost tip of India
View of Kanyakumari (Cape Comorin), the southernmost tip of India

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