place to place.

The fadians are very skillful in making bows
and arrows, but their chief weapon now is the rifle.

The red-brown man taught the white man how
to make canoes of birch bark, and shoes of soft
deerskin. The dusky savage also showed the
paleface how to make corn grow in a forest.
The trees were first killed by cutting a ring
of bark from their trunks, or by burning off the
bark. The hot sun could then ripen the corn, as
there were no leaves to shade it.

Is there nothing to say about the Indian
girls?

While the boys are wrestling or hunting, the
girls must stay at home and work. They must
learn to: cook, to hoe in the garden, to skin
the animals that
have been killed,

66 _ THE LAND OF THE ARABS.

92. The Land of the Arabs.

We start to-day for a land that lies far to the
southeast of the isthmus of Suez. The first
part of our trip is to New York. Can you show
on the map the shortest route by water from
New York to the isthmus of Suez?

It will take about two weeks t to cross the ocean
and the long Mediterranean sea.

Now we are passing the great rock of Guile
near the strait that opens into this long sea.
What grand division is this on the south? What
one is on the north?

_ Here we are at the isthmus. A small boat is
waiting to take us from the steamer to the land.
We are just in time,
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when moving camp.
They must also help
to carry all the tents
and kettles from

The little Indian
girl finds some time
for play. She is very

visit.

We must travel
on the backs of
camels, as our route
winds across a wide
desert. Here is a
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kind of dresses do
you think she makes
for her dolls? What kind of playhouse does she

— like best?.

Indians are found in neatly all parts of South
America, and in the western part of North
America. Only a few ‘tribes live east of the
Mississippi river.

The number of Indians in the United States is

_ small. There are about as many here now as

there were when the white men first settled in
America. ae

Where are Indians found? Can you draw an Indian’s
tent?”

What has the Indian fang the white man?

Tf an Indian girl were to visit Japan, what strange
sights would she see? What could an Indian girl teach a
Lapland girl?

 

Caravan.

it rises. .
Let us wait a few
minutes near the great Suez canal.t Here is a
long line of steamships ready to pass through.
Should you like to look inside these ships and see |
what they carry? This one is from southeast
Asia. It is loaded with tea, cotton, silk and grain.
This cargo will be carried to the British Isles.
The steamer from which we landed is bound to
Australia. Below its decks there are thousands of
yards of cloth and many kinds of machines and
tools. This ship will bring back a cargo of wool.
Now the caravan is ready to start. We turn
our faces towards the southeast, and soon lose
sight of the little city by the canal. How dry
and sandy the land is, and how hot the air!

10On page 51 there are two views of this canal.