INDEX upbuilding Egypt, 5; Cotton pro¬ duction along the, 13; all tillable land in Egypt formed by, 23; length of, 26. Nile River, source and tributaries, 129. Nubia, travelling through, 140.

Rift Valley, the Great, a trough through the African continent, 285. Rosetta, agricultural centre in Nile valley, 31. Roth, a young Swiss who broke up the slave trade of Upper Egypt, 184.

Obelisks, how made and transported, 122. Omdurman, stronghold of the Mahdi, 168, 187. Opthalmia, prevalent in Egypt, 146. Ostriches, hunting of, in East Africa, 271.

Palestine Military Railway, a great feat of construction, 165. Panama Canal, compared to the Suez Canal, 212. Perim, Island of, a British possession, 229. Philae, temples on the Island of, 146. Pompey’s Pillar, at Alexandria, 9. Poultry industry, of Egypt, 39. Port Said, “wickedest city from Lon¬ don to the Far East,” 217 Port Sudan, on the Red Sea, 224. Pyramids, the, 6, 22; visit to the, 79; revisited under more modern con¬ ditions, 87; how constructed, 91, 93; other Egyptian pyramids, 93.

Quarries of Aswan, furnished the stone for obelisks and temples of ancient Egypt, 148.

Ra-Hotep, Prince, statue of, in Cairo Museum, 101. Railroad fares in Egypt and the Sudan, 149, 154 Railroads of Egypt and the Sudan, 151; difficulties with desert sand, 157* Rameses, King, mummy in Cairo Museum, 96. Rameses II, Temple of, 122; gigantic statues of, 127; temple of Abu Simbel, 140. Red Sea, travelling on the, 208, 218. Reisner, Dr. George, archaeological research work, in Egypt, 89. Religion of the ancient Egyptians, 102. Rhinoceroses, hunting in East Africa, 274.

Sakkarah, Pyramids of, 81, 93. Schools, in Egypt, Mohammedan, 71; common and private, 76; of the Sudan, 204. Sennar, great dam under construction at, 165. Seti I, mummy of, in Cairo Museum, 97, 98. Sewing machines, American, sold in the Sudan, 196. Sheep, fat-tailed, of Egypt, 37. Shellal, the port of, 146. Shendi, on Sudan military railroad.

Slatin Pasha, author of “Fire and Sword in the Sudan” 181, 186. Slave traffic, breaking up the, 183. Somaliland, British, formerly belong¬ ing to Egypt, 226. Somaliland, Italian, a possession of little value, 225. Sphinx, view of from the Great Pyramid, 81; visit to, 84. Suakim, on the Red Sea, 224. Sudan, projected irrigation works in the, 136; agricultural possibilities of the, 176. Sudan, Port, on the Red Sea, 224. Sudanese, a strange people, 191. Sudd, immense swamps of the, 137. Suez, at end of the Canal, 217. Suez Canal, diversion of traffic to, 209; cost of toll, 210; its history, 210; compared to Panama Canal, 212. Suez, Gulf of, length, 220. Swahili, principal native language of Central and East Africa, 241.

Tanta, agricultural centre, on the Nile, 31. Temple of Karnak, obelisks at, 122. Tewfik Pasha, talk with, 58. Thebes, archaeological excavations at, 117; greatest city of antiquity, 126. Tobacco, production of, in Egypt, 39. Travel, cost of, in Africa, 144. Tuti Island, a Mahdist position facing Khartum, 182, 187.

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