A woman in a robe with a long veil. Line drawing.

A woman in a robe with a naked child on her shoulder. Line drawing.

Two men and a woman at a low table covered with food which they appear to be making. Line drawing.

A man walking with a large jug on his back. Line drawing.

A man standing next to a pot and hauling a large sack. Line drawing.

A man smoking a long pipe, a child standing next to him, and a person having his head shaved. Line drawing.

of little importance; but it cannot be denied that to the average traveller is not easily dissociated from Egypt, — the cradle of the oldest civilisation and culture in the world. The proximity...
history, handbook or guide-book will, of course, correct this general impression; but it is not, perhaps, an exaggeration, to say that some casual visitors to Egypt begin their sightseeing with a...

.OPYRIGHTBYAMESOTTOF I, N, 1905IRSTMPRESSIONSOVEMBER To MY FATHER PREFACE M motives may bring the tourist to Egypt. But when he first sets...
foot on her shores, or rather even when his thoughts first turn thither, he feels that Egypt is something more than a mere health or pleasure resort. Egypt has a history longer and more...

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONSBy frontispieceon the cover SKETCH-MAP OF EGYPT...
country Egypt might be, and tried to picture to themselves the scenes so vividly suggested in the Bible story.VERYIt must have been a startling experience for the little shepherd boy, who, stolen from his home among the quiet hills...

resort overlooking Territet with its lovely bay on Lac Leman, I chanced to meet an old friend of mine, a diplomatist, who had passed some ten years or so of his life in Egypt.“I have just been reading ‘Au...
dear fellow,” I replied. “I am going to flirt with yours. You are bound for the land of the ‘Mousmé,’ I am bound for the land ‘of mummies.’”“Egypt?”A far off look came into his eyes, a sigh...