INDEX Abbas Hilmi, talk with, 58, 66. Abbas Hilmi Mosque at Khartum, 171. Abu Simbel, Temple of, 140. Abu Tig, industrial school at, 78. Abyssinia, Italy fails to gain territory in, 224; only country in Africa independent of Europe, 226; future development assured, 228. Aden, shipping point for Mocha coffee, 229; the Gibraltar of the Red Sea, 230. Agricultural Bank, benefit of to Egyp¬ tian farmers, 9. Agriculture, possibilities of, in Kenya Colony, 263. Airplane, possibilities in Africa, 160. Akabah, Gulf of, canal from, to Mediterranean Sea proposed, 220. Akhotupu, Queen, mummy of in Cairo Museum, 98. Aknaton, Pharaoh, tomb of, 125. Alabaster Mosque, Cairo, 42, 43. Alexander, Dr. John, president of American College at Asyut, 108; on breaking up of the slave trade, 184. Alexandria, a modern city, 3. American College at Asyut, 106. American-built bridges: at Atbara, 154; on Uganda Railway, 247. American goods in East Africa, 259. Archaeological researches in Egypt, 88; how territory was alloted to representatives of the different countries, 89. Aswan Dam, for harnessing the Nile, 128; Low constructed, 132. Asyut, United Presbyterian mission school at, 76; the American College at, 106. Atbara, on Sudan military railroad, 155-Bab-el-Mandeb, on the Red Sea, 219. Bazaars of Cairo, trading in the, 55. Bead money of the Sudan, 194.

Bees, on the obelisks, 86. Bridges, American built, at Atbara, 154; on Uganda Railway, 247. British control of East Africa, 261. Boll weevil, in Egypt, 20. Book of the Dead, a record of the beliefs of the Pharaohs, 101. Boston Museum, archaeological re¬ search work in Egypt, 89, 117. Buffalo, the Water, Arab tradition of its creation, 233.

Cairo, largest city on African conti¬ nent, 41, 49; in the bazaars of, 55. Cairo Museum, archaeological trea¬ sures on exhibit at, 96. Camels, as farm animals, 35; use of, in Cairo, 52; in Arabia, 232. Cape-to-Cairo Railroad, travelling on the, 149. Cape-to-Cairo route, not a continuous railway trip, 164. Cattle, Egyptian, of same type through the centuries, 26. Cattle, humped, the beasts of burden of East Africa, 259. Cattle raising, possibilities in East Africa, 264. Central Africa, new irrigation proj¬ ects for, 136. Charity, among Mohammedans, 78. Cheops, Pyramid of, 79. Cleopatra, in ancient Alexandria, 11. Coffee, first grown in Abyssinia, 227; produced in East Africa, 266. Coffee, Mocha, marketed through Aden, Arabia, 229. Colossi of Memnon, size of the statues, 121. Copts, number of, in Egypt, 8; shrewd¬ est of Egyptians in business, 54; more intelligent than the Mo¬ hammedans, 112; the Jews of Egypt, 113; religious belief, 114; marriage customs, 116. Cotton, production of, on the Nile, 309