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Sketches in Egypt
Written and illustrated by
Charles Dana Gibson
New York
Doubleday & McClure Co.
PAGE
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 Assi?t 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
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