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

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