CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. Just a Word Before We Start . . i II. The Gateway to Egypt. 3 III. King Cotton on the Nile .... 13 IV. Through Old Egypt to Cairo ... 22 V. Fellaheen on Their Farms ... 29 VI. The Prophet's Birthday .... 41 VII. In the Bazaars of Cairo .... 49 VIII. Intimate Talks with Two Khedives . 58 IX. El-Azhar and Its Ten Thousand Mos¬ lem Students.70 X. Climbing the Great Pyramid ... 79 XI. The Pyramids Revisited.87 XII. Face to Face with the Pharaohs . 96 XIII. The American College at Asyut . . 106 XIV. The Christian Copts.112 XV. Old Thebes and the Valley of the Kings.117 XVI. The Nile in Harness.128 XVII. Steaming through the Land of Cush 140 XVIII. From the Mediterranean to the Sudan 149 XIX. Across Africa by Air and Rail . . 160 IX