| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | Egypt and the Nile | [1] |
| II. | How in Egypt Nature affected Man | [12] |
| III. | Who were the Egyptians? | [25] |
| IV. | Egypt the Japan of the Old World | [42] |
| V. | Backsheesh.—The Girl of Bethany | [45] |
| VI. | Antiquity and Character of the Pyramid Civilization | [52] |
| VII. | Labour was Squandered on the Pyramids because it could not be bottled up | [57] |
| VIII. | The Great Pyramid looks down on the Cataract of Philæ | [70] |
| IX. | The Wooden Statue in the Boulak Museum | [72] |
| X. | Date of Building with Stone | [75] |
| XI. | Going to the Top of the Great Pyramid | [85] |
| XII. | Luncheon at the Pyramids. Kêf | [92] |
| XIII. | Abydos | [97] |
| XIV. | The Faioum | [105] |
| XV. | Heliopolis | [117] |
| XVI. | Thebes—Luxor and Karnak | [124] |
| XVII. | Thebes—The Necropolis | [133] |
| XVIII. | Thebes—The Temple-Palaces | [144] |
| XIX. | Rameses the Great goes forth from Egypt | [154] |
| XX. | Germanicus at Thebes | [164] |
| XXI. | Moses’s Wife | [168] |
| XXII. | Egyptian Donkey-boys | [170] |
| XXIII. | Scarabs | [177] |
| XXIV. | Egyptian Belief in a Future Life | [182] |
| XXV. | Why the Hebrew Scriptures ignore the Future Life | [193] |
| XXVI. | The Effect of Eastern Travel on Belief | [244] |
| XXVII. | The Historical Method of Interpretation | [257] |
| XXVIII. | The Delta—Disappearance of its Monuments | [266] |
| XXIX. | Post-Pharaohnic Temples in Upper Egypt | [285] |
| XXX. | The Rationale of the Monuments | [290] |
| XXXI. | The Wisdom of Egypt, and its Fall | [299] |
| XXXII. | Egyptian Landlordism | [328] |
| XXXIII. | Caste | [332] |
| XXXIV. | Persistency of Custom in the East | [337] |
| XXXV. | Are all Orientals Mad? | [341] |
| XXXVI. | The Koran | [345] |
| XXXVII. | Oriental Prayer | [349] |
| XXXVIII. | Pilgrimage | [355] |
| XXXIX. | Arab Superstitions.—The Evil Eye | [359] |
| XL. | Oriental Cleanliness | [365] |
| XLI. | Why Orientals are not Republicans | [370] |
| XLII. | Polygamy—Its Cause | [374] |
| XLIII. | Houriism | [381] |
| XLIV. | Can anything be done for the East? | [389] |
| XLV. | Achmed tried in the Balance with Hodge | [396] |
| XLVI. | Water-Jars and Water-Carriers | [402] |
| XLVII. | Want of Wood in Egypt, and its Consequences | [405] |
| XLVIII. | Trees in Egypt | [410] |
| XLIX. | Gardening in Egypt | [414] |
| L. | Animal Life in Egypt.—The Camel | [417] |
| LI. | The Ass.—The Horse | [424] |
| LII. | The Dog.—The Unclean Animal.—The Buffalo.—The Ox.—The Goat and the Sheep.—Feræ Naturæ | [428] |
| LIII. | Birds in Egypt | [436] |
| LIV. | The Egyptian Turtle | [441] |
| LV. | Insect Plagues | [443] |
| LVI. | The Shadoof | [445] |
| LVII. | Alexandria | [448] |
| LVIII. | Cairo | [458] |
| LIX. | The Canalization of the Isthmus | [472] |
| LX. | Conclusion | [494] |
Transcriber’s Note: The map is clickable for a larger version.
EGYPT
EGYPT OF THE PHARAOHS,
AND OF
THE KHEDIVÉ.
CHAPTER I.
EGYPT AND THE NILE.
Quodque fuit campus, vallem decursus aquarum
Fecit.—Ovid.
The history of the land of Egypt takes precedence, at all events chronologically, of that of its people.