Sketches in Egypt - Charles Dana Gibson

ILLUSTRATIONS

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British Influence	[Frontispiece]
Indifference	[xi]
A Son of the Desert	[3]
A Peddler	[5]
The Slipper Bazaar, Cairo, January 22, 1898	[7]
Egyptian High Life	[9]
The Present Situation	[12]
A Dealer in Antiquities	[13]
The Bridge	[14]
A Village on the Road to the Pyramids	[14]
In the Fish-Market	[15]
Rameses the Great	[17]
At Lady Grenfell’s Masquerade Ball—on the eve of Kitchener’s departure for the Soudan	[20]
A Descendant of the Prophet—El Saied Ahmad Abdel Khalek Affandi, Sheik el Sadat	[22]
A Bargain in the Ghezireh Gardens	[23]
A Dancing-Girl	[25]
A Daughter of the Nile	[27]
On the Road to Cairo	[31]
Our Christmas Dinner, Esneh, December 23	[35]
Karnak, January 2, 1898	[37]
Salem Ghesiri, Dragoman	[39]
A Karnak Beggar	[40]
Ali, the Pilot	[42]
Statue of Thothmes, Karnak	[43]
Lunching in Karnak	[45]
An Assiût Donkey	[47]
Temple of Ti	[50]
Tombs of the Kings, Thebes	[51]
A Guardian of the Temple	[53]
“Most of the day was spent with Baedeker”	[55]
Christmas, 1897	[59]
Guardians of the Temple	[61]
Christmas Night-“Auld Lang Syne”	[63]
Thebes, January 2, 1898	[67]
Some Visitors	[71]
Vignette	[74]
His Highness Prince Mahomet Ali, Cairo, February 14, 1898	[76]
On the Bank	[77]
Shopping	[79]
Shepheard’s Hotel, Cairo	[81]
A Luxor Dancing-Girl	[83]
Camel-Back	[85]
The Sheik of the Pyramids	[88]
On Grenfell Hill The Keeper of the Tomb, Assuan, December 29, 1897	[89]
At the Races, Khedival Sporting Club	[94]
An Assuan Beggar	[95]
An Artist in the Mouskie	[97]
Our Bisharin Friends, Assuan	[100]
Beni-Hassan	[101]
At Philæ	[104]
“As good an imitation of Monte Carlo as the law allows”	[105]
“The man who has ‘been there before’”	[110]
In a Coffee-House, Cairo	[111]
At Komombos	[115]