Translations, mostly French, of the following Arab Historians and Geographers:—
- Ibn Abdel Hakim Khaldoun. History of the Berbers.
- Mohammed ben Ayas.
- El Makrizi.
- El Masoudi.
- Ibn el Wardi.
- Abulfeda.
- El Idrisi.
- Schemfedden Mohammed Abdel Furur.
INDEX
- Abbas Helmi, [3]
- Abbas Pasha, [108]
- Abdel Arti, smuggler, [115], [117]
- Abdel Gader, sheikh of travellers, [54]
- Abdel Moneim, cruiser, [34], [35]
- Abdel Rahman, Sheikh, [66]
- Abdel Sayed, [180]
- Abdulla Homeid, Sheikh, [66], [247]
- Abdulla Mansur, [112]
- Abu Zeyed, [54]
- Actium, battle of, [9]
- Aeroplanes, [125]
- African Association, [101]
- Agagia, battle of, [126]
- Age of Siwans, [196]
- Aghourmi, [69], [71], [83], [86], [87], [96]; sheikh of, [67]; spring, [81]; temple, [78]
- Agriculture, [260]
- Ahmed Fazi, [119]
- Ahmed Hamza, [112]
- Ahmed Idris, [111]
- Ain el Hammam, [81]
- “Akaba incident,” [xiv]
- Alexander the Great, [84], [85], [176]
- Alexandria, [3], [5], [6], [34], [35]; summer resort, [8]; Alexander buried at, [85]
- Algeria, [10]
- Ali Balli, [102], [104]
- Ali Dinar, Sultan of Darfur, [132], [190]
- Almsgiving, [243]
- Amaryllis, [10]
- Ammon, god, [76]; legends of, [77], [79], [xix]
- Ammonia, [7], [79]
- Ammonians, [76], [77], [79], [80]
- Amrou, [89]
- Animals at Siwa, [202]
- Antony, [9]
- Appetites of Siwans, [168], [239]
- Arabia, [93]
- Arabs, [5], [14], [17]; carrying arms, [18]; clothes, [20]; characteristics, [209]; conversation, [24]; dance, [44]; horses, [27]; hospitality, [22]; invasion, [5], [89], [94]; at Maragi, [185]; refugees, [201]; songs, [256]; tents, [19]; wealth, [26]; wells, [43]; welcome rains, [32]; wives, [39]; women, [21]
- Arasieh, lake, [103]
- Architecture, Siwan, [133], [134]
- Areg, El, oasis of, [183], [184]
- Argoul, [158], [244]
- Arms, seizing, [73]
- Arusia, sect, [151]
- Assiut, [184]
- Athanasius, St., [88]
- Athenians, [79]
- Atlantic, [94]
- Atlantis, [191]
- Augerin, Bir, [43]
- Augustus, [88]
- Australian Light Horse, [125]
- Awlad Ali, [6]
- Azhar university, [119]
- Bachelors, custom of, [98]
- Bagbag, [15]
- Bahrein oasis, [115], [183], [184]
- Bairam, Kurban, feast of, [246]
- Baird, Miss, [xxi], [201]
- Bakhr-Wahash, wild ox, [202]
- Bakshish, [176]
- Bangles, rolling the, [235]
- Barley, [6]
- Barrani, [13], [14]; evacuation, [124]; reoccupation, [126]
- Bashu Habun, [176]
- Basket making, [199]
- Bates, Oric, [75], [76]
- Bathing, [61], [63]; bride, [216]; at Matruh, [8]
- Bazaars, [141]
- Beda, el, [120]
- Behera, [110]
- Beit el Mal, [244]
- Ben Ayas, historian, [90]
- Ben Soleim, tribe of, [93]
- Bequests, religious, [235]
- Berbers, [2], [88], [91], [94], [95], [209]; from Europe, [20], [xvii]; dialect, [146]; sacrifices, [234]
- Berseem, custom of, [162]
- Bikaner, Maharajah, [xxiv]
- Bilad el Kelab, [57]
- Bir Hakim, [123], [131]
- Birds, [31], [203]; eggs, [204]
- Birth-rate at Siwa, [2]
- Bisharin trackers, [53]
- Blossoms, [202]
- Booba, story of, [173]
- Booza camp, [40]
- Bramley, Captain Jennings, [xxii]
- Bread, on trek, [52]
- Bride, customs of, [213], [216]
- Browne at Siwa, [100]
- Budget, economy on, [34]
- Butin, Colonel, [103]
- Byzantines, [89]
- Cairns, rock, [52]
- Calamis, statue by, [80]
- Cambyses, lost army of, [80]
- Camel Corps, [2], [15], [26], [37], [38]; barracks, [49]; exploring with, [195]; as garrison, [131], [135]; soldiers, [41]; songs of, [54]; wives of, [62], [100]
- Camels, [25]; riding, [48]; fly, [202]; in rain, [32]; stories of, [36]; drinking, [45]; as transport, [260]
- Camp, in the desert, [49]
- Canaanite migration, [xvii]
- Canal, Suez, [123]
- Caravans, [56], [86], [120]
- Carpets, [189]; leather, [91]; makers of, [201]
- Cars, [11]
- Carthage, [80]
- Cats, [170]
- Causeway, [104]
- Caves, at Kasr Hassuna, [119]
- Cemeteries, [223]
- Chess, [241]
- Childbirth preventives, [211]
- Children, [146], [200], [211], [213]; festival, [237]; murder of, [173]
- Christianity at Siwa, [88]
- Cimon, [81]
- Cisterns, [17], [43], [44]
- Civil War in Siwa, [99], [100]
- Clearchus, King, [78]
- Cleopatra, [9]
- Clerk, Coptic, [67]
- Climate, [263]
- Coastal belt, [5]
- Coastguards, [3], [4], [34], [37], [124]; fight with Abdel Arti, [117]; officers of, [124]
- Coffee, [67]
- Constantinople, [122], 189; Sayed Ahmed retires to, [131]
- Cooks, [44], [60]
- Corippus, [75]
- Cows, [203]
- Crime, [172]
- Crœsus, [76]
- Crops, [155], [156]
- Customs, [188]
- Cyprus, [81]
- Cyrene, [84]
- Cyrenians, [78]
- Daftar el Ain, [154]
- Dak bungalows, [13]
- Dakhla oasis, [128]
- Dakrur, Gebel, [83], [93]
- Danaus, [77]
- Dancing, [46], [253], [254], [257], [258]; Arab, [45]
- Darfur, [56], [132], [190]
- Dartmoor, [14]
- Dates, markets, [137], [138]; harvest, [152]; palms, [156]; cultivation, [157]; at El Areg, [184]
- Decorations, Turkish, [127]
- Delphi, [87]
- Derna, [105]
- Desert plateau, [57]
- “Devil’s Country,” [189]
- Diodorus Siculus, [77]
- Dionysius, [76], [78]
- District Officer’s house, [59], [60]
- Divorce, among Siwans, [172], [173], [214], [215]; Arabs, [21]
- Doctor, Syrian, [67]
- Dodona, oracle of, [77], [79]
- Dogs, Arab, [23]; country of, [57]; as food, [169], [170]; “Howa,” [47], [163]
- Doré, Gustave, [57]
- Dorset Yeomanry, [126]
- Doves, [77]
- Dreams, interpretation of, [232]
- Drinking, [150], [249]
- Drums, [252], [255]
- Ear-rings, [148]
- Earthquakes, [195]
- Easterners, [99], [100]
- Egyptian Army, [38]
- Egyptian Government, [2], [114]; representative, [64]
- Emeralds, [86], [91], [93], [261]
- Enver Pasha, [xxv]
- Ethiopia, [80], [77]
- Evening at Siwa, [240]
- Evil Eye, [25], [209], [223]; charms against, [224], [225]
- Exabia oasis, [185]
- Excavations, [93], [178], [191], [192], [261]
- Ex-Khedive, [3], [4], [93], [178], [261]
- Falls, Ewart, [3]
- False dawn, [47]
- Fantasias, [239]
- Farafra oasis, [203]
- Farag Khasaf, [104]
- Fasting, [244]
- Fénelon, [88]
- Ferik, [83]
- Fever, [160], [189], [263]
- Fezzan, [101]
- Fikis, [194], [209]; charms of, [224]
- Fish, [212]; destroy mosquitoes, [160]; as food, [97]
- Flies, [248]
- Flowers, [32]
- Flying Corps, [124]
- Forbes, Mrs., [xxvii], [262]
- Fortune-telling, [233]
- Fossils, [88], [183]
- Fostat, [92]
- Fountain of the Sun, [81]
- French in Algeria, [119]
- Frogs, [164]
- Frontier Districts Administration, [xiv], [xv], [2], [37], [201]
- Fruit, [156], [158]; at Siwa, [202], [248]
- Fuca, Bir, [6]
- Funerals, [149], [222]
- Furniture, [144]
- Gabreen, Haj, [194]
- Gaffar Pasha, [125], [126]
- Gagub, oasis, [185]; spring at, [186]; wild oxen, [202]
- Gallipoli, [123]
- Gara, oasis, [102], [179]; legends about, [180], [181]
- Gardens, [154], [156], [158]
- Gawazi Arabs, [203]
- Gazelle, [30], [49], [184]
- Gebel Dakrur, [83], [93]
- Geography, Strabo’s, [87]
- Germans, [4], [6], [101]; in N. Africa, [118]; in Tripoli, [122]
- Ghaffir, [253]; El Ain, [154]
- Ghouls, [208]
- “Ghrula,” [221]
- Girba, battle of, [129]; evacuation of, [130]
- Goats, [24]; quarrel about, [111]
- God of Siwa, [76]
- Governor’s House, [7]
- Governor, Western Desert, [37]
- Gramophone, [164]
- Graves, [223]
- Greece, [77]
- Greeks, [5], [58], [79]; colonists, [7], [13], [10], [263]
- Gum trees, [182]
- Gun-running, [38], [190]
- Gurzil, [76]
- Haboob, [72]
- Habun, Bashu, [175], [176]
- Habun, Osman, [112], [113], [114], [115], [116], [117]
- Hakim, Bir, [123], [131]
- Halfia Pass, [127]
- Ham, [77]
- Hamed, Bir, [44]
- Hamilton, [105], [106], [107]
- Hannibal, [79]
- Hanoui, [198]
- Hares, [28]
- Harimat, [39], [62]
- Hashish, [241]
- Hassan Mitnana, [98]
- Hassanein Bey, [xxvi], [262]
- Hassein Bey, [102], [103], [104]
- Hassuna Mansur, [110], [111]
- Hassuna, Kasr, [119], [129]
- Hawking, [27], [28]
- Hedjaz, [119]
- “Helga,” [241]
- Henna, [20], [226], [210]
- Hens, [175]
- Hephistion, [85]
- Herodotus, [77], [78]
- Hidden cities, [92]
- Hilal tribe, [93]
- Hill of the Dead, [68], [94], [104]
- History, Arabic, [3], [74], [80]
- Holy war, [118]
- Hornemann, [101]
- Horses, [27]
- Hounds, [29]
- Houses, [33]; Siwan, [133]; interior of, [142]
- Hunter, Colonel G. G., [xv], [37]
- Hunting, [29], [30]
- Husband, to obtain, [228]
- Iblis, [208]; to summon, [230]
- Ibrahaim el Bishari, [56]
- Idris, Sidi, [132]
- Immorality, [101]
- Inheritance, [155], [172]
- Interpreters, [98]
- Ireland, [18]
- Iron, [91]
- Irrigation, [153], [154]
- Islands of the Blessed, [1]
- Italians, in Tripoli, [15], [118], [122], [132]; British alliance with, [123]
- Jackals, [31]
- Jalo, [56], [96]; Senussi at, [120]
- Jerabub, [56], [96], [110]; the Senussi at, [121]; view of, [186]
- Jewels, [91], [188]
- Jews, [10]
- Jinns, [136], [194]
- Johannides, [265]
- “Joy Riders,” [35]
- Jupiter, [77]
- Juvenal, [87]
- Kareished, [178]
- Karnak, [80]
- Kasr Hassuna, [103], [119]; caves at, [120]; shaft, [193]
- Keimat en Nus, [53]
- Kerdassa, [148]
- Khadria confraternity, [119]
- Khamissa, [83], [88], [185]
- Khamsin, [7]
- Khargeh oasis, [80]
- Khartoum, [36]
- Khedival road, [7]
- Kingfishers, [8]
- Kitchener, Lord, [6]
- Kom Ombo, [38]
- Koran, [94]; used by Fikis, [209]; quotations from, [245]
- “Kreish,” [18]
- Kufra oasis, [56], [96], [177], [190], [191], [262]
- Labour, cost of, [261]
- Lagoons at Matruh, [8], [9]
- Lake, magic, [90]
- Language, [2], [101], [146]
- Lapis lazuli, [91]
- Level, sea, [1], [57]
- Libyans, ancient, [xvii], [4], [5], [76]
- Light cars, [16], [31]
- Lions, [204]
- Liquor, [255]
- Loneliness, [263]
- Lotophagi, lotus eaters, [4]
- “Lover, the,” magic stone, [91]
- Lubbok, [115]
- Lubki, [242]; drinkers of, [249]
- Lucky Days, [43]
- Luncheon, garden, [162], [165]
- Luxor, [38]; snake charming at, [206]
- Lybis, king, [78], [79]
- Lysander, [79]
- Macdonnel, Colonel, [37]
- Magic, [207], [209]
- Mahdi, Sudanese, [122]
- Mahdi Abdel Nebi, sheikh of Aghourmi, [67], [69]
- Mails, [34], [42]
- Malaria, [160], [161]
- Mamur, [13], [59], [67]; at Siwa, [109]; Arab, [118]; killed by Habun, [116]
- Manshia, suburb, [97], [108]
- Maragie, [185]
- Marids, [208]
- Marissa, [41]
- Markaz, [59], [65], [128]
- Markets, date, [137], [138]
- Marriage, Arab, [21]; Englishmen, question of, [172]; oldest inhabitant, [197]; customs, [214]; money, [213]
- Mashrabs, [52]; El Abd, [53]
- Maspero, M., [44], [75]
- Mat making, [157], [198]
- Matruh, Mersa, [3], [11], [79], [84]; town, [7]; bay, [8]; water supply, [9]; pack, [29]; as base, [125]
- Meat, [169]
- Mecca, [95], [96], [101], [119], [234], [236]
- Mediæval historians, [90]
- Medinia, sect, [112], [151]; revolt of, [128]; “zikr,” [249], [250]
- Mediterranean, [1], [3], [14]
- Megahiz, spring, [58], [107]
- Mejberry Pass, [182]
- Melfa, oasis of, [185], [186]
- Memphis, [80]
- Meneclush, King, [82], [83]
- Merchandise, from Jerabub, [188]
- Mesamia, [104]
- Mice, [169]
- Michael’s Mount, [133]
- Midwives, [211]
- Mihrab, [119]
- Military Administrator, [37]
- Mines, [91]
- Ministry of Health, [160]
- Mirage, [14], [51], [189]
- Mitnana, Hassan, [98]
- Mogabara Arabs, [56]
- Mohammed Ali, [75], [102], [108]
- Mohammed el Mahdi, [120], [121]
- Mohammed el Sherif, [121]
- Mohammed Effendi Saleh, [126], [129], [130], [131]
- Mohammed el Senussi, [118], [119], [120], [121]
- Mohammed Hamman, [69], [70]
- Mohammed Ithneini, of Jerabub, [187]
- Mohammed Said, [112]
- Mohammedan invasion, [5], [94]
- Moorina, survivors of, [130]
- Morals, Siwan, [150]
- Morocco, [xviii], [119]
- Mosques, [139], [242]
- Motors, [11], [127], [261]
- Moussa Ibn Nosseir, [90]
- Mud pans, [51]
- Muezzins, [69], [155]
- Mulids, [246]
- Mummies, [192]
- Music, [255], [256]
- Nabis, [79]
- Naming children, [212], [213]
- Napoleon, [101]
- Nasamonians, [4]
- Natrun Wadi, [102]
- Negb Mejberry, [182]
- Niger, river, [79]
- Night life, [241]
- Nile, river, [79]
- Noah, [77]
- Nomads, [17]
- Oases, [xix], [1], [75], [78], [177]
- Occupations at Siwa, [170]
- Officials, Egyptian, [67]
- Old age, Siwan, [197]
- Oldest inhabitant, [197]; his wedding, [198]
- Olives, [178]; press for, [179]; oil, [178], [260]
- Omm Beyda, [82]
- Opium, [241]
- Orange tree, fabulous, [91]
- Painting, [171]; mural, [184]
- Palms, date, [156]; cultivation, [157]
- Pan-Islamic possibilities, [4]
- Parætonium, [7], [84]
- Partridges, [31]
- Peyton, General, [xxiv]
- Persia, [81]
- Persians, [5]
- Pharaoh, [85]
- Phœnicians, [77]
- Photography, [171]; photo of Siwa, [4]
- Pigeons, [31]; carrier, [204]
- Pilgrimage, [234], [235], [236]
- Pindar, [79]
- Plague, [95]
- Pliny, [76]
- Police, Siwan, [65], [100], [253]
- Polygamy, [21]
- Population, [2]
- Postman, Senussi, [198]
- Pottery, [199]
- Pumice stone, [13]
- Puttees, worn by Senussi, [127]
- Quail, [31]
- Quarrel of East and West, [98], [99]
- Quinine, [160]
- Qur el Beid, [47]
- Rabbits, [145]
- Raid, rifle, [72]
- Rains, [5], [32], [33], [125]
- Ram-headed divinity, [xix], [75], [78], [85], [86]
- Ramadan, [244], [245]
- Rameses, [75]
- Rasheed, gunboat, [124]
- Rashwan, King, [94]
- Rats as food, [169]
- Ravens lead Alexander, [85]
- Rest houses, [13]
- Revolt of Siwans against Senussi, [128]
- Ritual of temple, [85], [86]
- Rodd, Francis, [xxiii]
- Rollins history, [77]
- Romans, [9], [44], [88]; road, [17]
- Roofs, [144]
- Roses, [165]
- Routine, daily, at Siwa, [63]
- Royal Artillery, [8]
- Royle, Major, [124]
- Sacrifice of bull, [234]
- Sahara, [191]
- St. John, Bayle, [105]
- St. Menas, [xxii], [4]
- Said Pasha, [108]
- Sakhit Amouou, [78]
- Saleh Said, Sheikh, [65]
- Salt, [91]; lakes, [159]; tribute, [159]
- Samovars, [189]
- Sand-storms, [80]
- Santarieh, [90]
- Sayed Ahmed, [122], [123]; at Siwa, [126]; goes to Dakhla, [128]; flight from Siwa, [129]; retires to Turkey, [131]; character, [132]
- Sayed Mohammed, [xxv]
- Scarp, [14], [16], [17], [29], [31]; in spring, [32]; ascent of, [47]
- School, [139]
- Scorpions, [205]
- Sebukh, [97], [159], [182]
- Semna, [24]
- Senagra tribe, [4]
- Senussi, [xxiv], [8]; rebellion, [18], [38]; brethren, [52]; power of, [109], [110], [111]; peace made by, [114]; operations against, [117]; history of, [118], [119], [120], [121]; at outbreak of war, [122]; campaign against British, [123]-132
- Serpents, [91]
- Servants, [61], [245]
- Shaigis, [44]
- Sharks, [12]
- Sheep, [25]
- Sheikhs, Siwan, [65]; in fiction, [243]
- Shells, [87]
- Sheytan, [208]
- Shops, [139], [140], [141]
- Shyata, [185]
- Sightseers, [135]
- Sikhs, [125]
- Silius Italicus, [79]
- Silugis, [29], [47]
- Sinai, [xiv], [37]
- Singer, [4]
- Siwa, whereabouts, [1]; arrival at, [58]; first impressions, [61]; view from, [68]; history of, [74]-132; town of, [133]; population of, [150]
- Slaves, [95], [96]
- Slave-woman’s story, [70], [71]
- Smoking, [241]
- Snakes, [28], [205]; charmers, [206]
- Snow, [88]; Colonel, [124]
- Solitude, [171]
- Sollum, [1], [3], [5], [7], [13], [14]; camp of, [16]; houses at [33]; Camel Corps camp at, [40]; departure from, [42]; garrison of, [123]; evacuated, [124]; recaptured, [127]
- Soud, Sheikh, [176]
- Sparta, [79]
- Sponge fishers, [12]
- Springs, [152], [153], [161]
- “Stables,” [68]
- Stanhope, Lady Hester, [201]
- Stars, shooting, [227]
- Stolen property, [230], [231]
- Stone, sacred, [76], [91]
- Stove, story of, [39], [40]
- Strabo, [87]
- Submarines wrecked on coast, [123]
- Sudan, [6], [26], [36], [44], [56], [61]; rest houses, [13]; recruiting in, [38]; trade, [96]; caravans from, [87]; invasion of, [102]; rebellion in, [132]
- Sudanese, [38]; conversation, [57]; views of, [26]; wives, [39]
- Sugar, [142]
- Suitors, to obtain, [227], [228]
- Suliman, Haj, [197]
- Suliman, Sidi, [96], [98]; legends of, [97], [212]; Mulid of, [246], [249]; tomb of, [110], [114], [138], [233], [234]
- Sulphur spring, [186]
- Sultan of Turkey, [118], [131]; excommunicated by Senussi, [121]
- Sultan Mousa, [162]
- “Sultan” of tea ceremony, [167]
- Sunset at Siwa, [69]
- Sun worship, [75]
- Sweets, [237]
- Table manners, [249]
- Talbot Mission, [xxiv]
- Tamousy, spring, [215]
- Tara, torpedoed, [123]; rescue of crew, [130]
- Tea-drinking, [167], [248], [250]
- Tebu, lost army from, [81]
- Telemachus, [88]
- Telephone, [181]
- Temperature, [50], [61]
- Temple of Jupiter, [77]
- Temple of Jupiter Ammon, [32], [77]
- Temple of Thebes, [80]
- Tharic Ben Sayed, [90]
- Thebes, [76]
- Theft, discovery of, [230]
- Thieves, [137]
- “Thirty, The,” [95]
- Thomi, Sheikh, [66], [163]
- Thorn, camel, [183]
- Thousand and One Nights, [210]
- Timasius, [88]
- Title-deeds, [155]
- Tombs, of kings, [196]; of sheikhs, [246], [247]; inhabited, [192]
- Town-crier, [221]
- Toy-maker, [200]
- Trade, [10], [120], [261]
- Transport difficulties, [260]
- Treaty of Lausanne, [118]
- Trees, [202]
- Tripoli, [1], [15], [71], [93], [96], [101], [105], [151], [187]; smugglers, [115]; Arabs of, [18], [118]; blankets, [184]; Italians, [122], [123]; Senussi, [120]
- Tunis, [10]
- Tunnels in Gebel Hassuna, [193]
- Turks, [102]; in Tripoli, [118], [122]
- Typhoid, [160]
- Uganda, [57]
- Viceroy of Egypt, [107]
- Wadai, [96], [120]
- Wadi Natrun, [102]
- Wær, Bir, [127]
- Wahabi confraternity, [151]
- Wakf, [95], [235]
- Watchmen, [253]
- Water supply in Siwa, [152]; rights, [154], [155]
- Weddings, Arab, [45]; customs, [217], [218], [219]; presents, [214], [220]; procession, [216]
- Wells, [18]; in Siwa, [136]; courting at, [240]; at Gara, [179]
- Westerners, [99], [100]
- Westminster, Duke of, [127], [130], [131]
- Whitewashing custom, [137]
- “Widow’s War,” [111]
- Widow, custom of, [221]
- Wind, [72]-107
- Windows, [143]
- Witches, [208], [225]; tea with, [226]; invoking demons, [229]; practices of, [230]
- Witnesses, female, [174]
- Wives, “taking over,” [62]; Siwan, [213]
- Wreckage, [13]
- Yeomanry, [125]
- Yom el Ashur, [237]
- Yusif Ali, [104], [105], [106], [107], [108]
- Zafr el Medina, [151]
- Zealand, New, Brigade, [125]
- Zebras, [93]
- Zeitoun, [177]
- Zeus, [85]
- Zigale, [98], [106]
- Zikr, [248], [249], [250]
- Zouias, [120]
Transcriber's note:
- pg [xi] Changed: "A Little Siwan Girl -- 283" to: "238"
- pg [12] Changed: "what a a strange" to: "what a strange"
- Caption of [twelfth illustration] “KASR HASSUNA,” Changed: "OFFICER’S HOUS" to: "HOUSE"
- pg [163] Changed: "I was introduce to the other" to: "introduced"
- pg [190] Changed: "It js a dreary region" to: "is"
- pg [250] Changed: "surrounded by tall, houses" to: "tall houses"
- pg [265] Changed: "from Cairo to Mouzouk" to: "Mourzouk"
- pg [266] Changed: "Abdulfeda" to: "Abulfeda"
- New original cover art included with this eBook is granted to the public domain.