After that, come with me up the Nile in the time that saw the close of the Gordon Relief Expedition, when the sailing “Dahabieh,” most fascinating of house-boats, was still the vogue for those who were not in a hurry, and when again the tourist (of that particular year) was away seeking safer picnic grounds elsewhere.
Then to the Cape and the voyage thither, which may not sound alluring, but where you may find something to smile at.
I claim your indulgence, wherever I ask you to accompany me, for my painter’s literary crudities; but nowhere do I need it more than in Italy, for you have trodden that field with me almost foot by foot. The veil to which I trust for softening those asperities elsewhere must fall asunder there.
I have made my Diary, and in the case of the Egyptian chapters, my letters to our mother, the mainsprings from which to draw these reminiscences.
BANSHA CASTLE, July 1909.
CONTENTS
| [I. IN THE WEST OF IRELAND] | |
|---|---|
| [CHAPTER I] | |
| PAGE | |
| Glanaragh | [3] |
| [CHAPTER II] | |
| County Mayo in 1905 | [15] |
| [II. EGYPT] | |
| [CHAPTER I] | |
| Cairo | [31] |
| [CHAPTER II] | |
| The Upper Nile | [55] |
| [CHAPTER III] | |
| Alexandria | [77] |
| [III. THE CAPE] | |
| [CHAPTER I] | |
| To The Cape | [91] |
| [CHAPTER II] | |
| At Rosebank, Cape Colony | [105] |
| [IV. ITALY] | |
| [CHAPTER I] | |
| Vintage-Time in Tuscany | [123] |
| [CHAPTER II] | |
| Sienna, Perugia, and Vesuvius | [143] |
| [CHAPTER III] | |
| Rome | [160] |
| [INDEX] | [175] |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| IN COLOUR | ||
| [1.] | The Hour of Prayer, A Souvenir of Wady Halfa | [Frontispiece] |
| IRELAND | ||
| FACING PAGE | ||
| [2.] | Our Escort into Glenaragh | [1] |
| [3.] | “A Chapel-of-Ease,” Co. Kerry | [8] |
| [4.] | Croagh Patrick | [17] |
| [5.] | Clew Bay, Co. Mayo | [20] |
| [6.] | A Little Irish River | [24] |
| EGYPT | ||
| [7.] | In a Cairo Bazaar | [33] |
| [8.] | The Camel Corps | [40] |
| [9.] | The English General’s Syces | [49] |
| [10.] | Registering Fellaheen for the Conscription | [56] |
| [11.] | “No Mooring To-night!” | [59] |
| [12.] | The “Fostât” becalmed | [62] |
| [13.] | At Philæ | [67] |
| [14.] | A “Lament” in the Desert | [70] |
| [15.] | Abu Simbel at Sunrise | [76] |
| [16.] | Madame’s “At Home” Day; Servants at the Gate | [81] |
| [17.] | Syndioor on the Lower Nile | [88] |
| THE CAPE | ||
| [18.] | “In the Hollow of His Hand” | [97] |
| [19.] | A Corner of our Garden at Rosebank | [104] |
| [20.] | The Inverted Crescent | [113] |
| [21.] | The Cape “Flats” | [120] |
| ITALY | ||
| [22.] | Bringing in the Grapes | [123] |
| [23.] | A Son of the Soil, Riviera di Levante | [126] |
| [24.] | Ploughing in Tuscany | [145] |
| [25.] | The Bersaglieri at the Fountain, Perugia | [152] |
| [26.] | A Meeting on the Pincian: French and GermanSeminarists | [161] |
| [27.] | A Lenten Sermon in the Colosseum | [164] |
| [28.] | The Start for the Horse Race, Rome | [168] |
Also head and tail pieces in black and white on pp. [2],[3], [15],[27], | ||