ILLUSTRATIONS
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British InfluenceFrontispiece
Indifferencexi
A Son of the Desert3
A Peddler5
The Slipper Bazaar, Cairo, January 22, 18987
Egyptian High Life9
The Present Situation12
A Dealer in Antiquities13
The Bridge14
A Village on the Road to the Pyramids14
In the Fish-Market15
Rameses the Great17
At Lady Grenfell’s Masquerade Ball—on the eve of Kitchener’s departure for the Soudan20
A Descendant of the Prophet—El Saied Ahmad Abdel Khalek Affandi, Sheik el Sadat22
A Bargain in the Ghezireh Gardens23
A Dancing-Girl25
A Daughter of the Nile27
On the Road to Cairo31
Our Christmas Dinner, Esneh, December 2335
Karnak, January 2, 189837
Salem Ghesiri, Dragoman39
A Karnak Beggar40
Ali, the Pilot42
Statue of Thothmes, Karnak43
Lunching in Karnak45
An Assiût Donkey47
Temple of Ti50
Tombs of the Kings, Thebes51
A Guardian of the Temple53
“Most of the day was spent with Baedeker”55
Christmas, 189759
Guardians of the Temple61
Christmas Night-“Auld Lang Syne”63
Thebes, January 2, 189867
Some Visitors71
Vignette74
His Highness Prince Mahomet Ali, Cairo, February 14, 189876
On the Bank77
Shopping79
Shepheard’s Hotel, Cairo81
A Luxor Dancing-Girl83
Camel-Back85
The Sheik of the Pyramids88
On Grenfell Hill The Keeper of the Tomb, Assuan, December 29, 189789
At the Races, Khedival Sporting Club94
An Assuan Beggar95
An Artist in the Mouskie97
Our Bisharin Friends, Assuan100
Beni-Hassan101
At Philæ104
“As good an imitation of Monte Carlo as the law allows”105
“The man who has ‘been there before’”110
In a Coffee-House, Cairo111
At Komombos115
