LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

On the great Aswan Dam. Frontispiece

FACING PAGE The bead sellers of Cairo .... 2 The veiled women. 3 On the cotton docks of Alexandria 6 Nubian girls selling fruit ..... 7 Woman making woollen yarn .... *4 Fresh-cut sugar cane. 15 One of the mill bridges. 18 The ancient sakieh. 19 The native ox. 19 Water peddlers at the river .... 22 Women burden bearers. 23 Threshing wheat with norag .... 30 A corn field in the delta. 30 The pigeon towers. V In the sugar market. 38 Flat roofs and mosque towers of Cairo . 39 Tent of the sacred carpet. 46 The A labaster Mosque. 47 “ Buy my lemonade V*. 54 A street in old Cairo. 55 Gates of the Abdin Palace .... 62 The essential kavass. 63 In the palace conservatory. 66 The famous Shepheard’s Hotel.... 67

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