Content

• Einband
• Frontispiz
• Titelblatt
• Widmung
• V-VII Preface
• IX-XII Contents
• 1-16 Chapter I: First impressions – Alexandria, ancient and modern
• 17-25 Chapter II: preparations for the voyage – Donkeys, cooks, marketing
• 26-31 Chapter III: The embarkation – Mahmoodeeh Canal – The Nile
• 32-44 Chapter IV: Nile comforts; A Nile boat and crew
• 45-53 Chapter V: Navigation, villages, bazaar, houses, and children
• 54-63 Chapter VI: Occupations of the people – Water jars – Productions – Tillage – The shadoof an the Sakia
• 64-69 Chapter VII: Tenure of land – Disposition and manners of the people
• 70-73 Chapter VIII: The desert and the railroad
• 74-81 Chapter IX: Cairo the magnificent
• 82-89 Chapter X: Scenery of the Nile – Day and night
• 90-95 Chapter XI: Minieh – A sugar factory – Visit to a Bey
• 96-99 Chapter XII: River Saints and Coptic hermits
• 100-111 Chapter XIII: Sabbaths on the Nile – A missionary incident
• 112-114 Chapter XIV: Marriage and mourning
• 115-121 Chapter XV: Orientalizing – A village coffee-house
• 122-124 Chapter XVI: Crocodiles
• 125-131 Chapter XVII: Denderah – Keneh – A human heart
• 132-136 Chapter XVIII: Trees and birds
• 137-142 Chapter XIX: Negadeh – Salutations – A Coptic church
• 143-151 Chapter XX: Mother Egypt – Thebes – Temples and monuments – The nineteenth century
• 152-157 Chapter XXI: Memnon still sounds
• 158-176 Chapter XXII: Fragments of Theban history – Sources – Rosetta stone – Hieroglyphics – Antiquities
• 177-181 Chapter XXIII: Chronology of the Bible
• 182-189 Chapter XXIV: History continued – Correspondences with the Bible
• 190-196 Chapter XXV: Recent discoveries at Thebes – Memorials of early Christanity
• 197-209 Chapter XXVI: The tombs of Thebes – Manners and customs of the ancient Egyptians
• 210-217 Chapter XXVII: Gods of the Egyptians – Doctrine of immortality
• 218-230 Chapter XXVIII: Dissolving views – Panorama of Karnac
• 231-240 Chapter XXIX: A chapter of items – Parting from Thebes – Getting news – The Sirocco – Emigration – Inauguration day
• 241-246 Chapter XXX: Girgeh and Abydos – Fertility and desolation
• 247-252 Chapter XXXI: Italians and Copts
• 253-262 XXXII: Osioot, or wolf-town – The old and the new – A modern cemetery – Soldier making – John the hermit
• 263-273 Chapter XXXIII: Antiquity of art and science – True antiquity of Egypt
• 274-282 Chapter XXXIV: Climate of the Nile – A chapter for invalids
• 283-288 Chapter XXXV: Cairo again – Shoobra – Rhoda – Old Cairo – The derwishes
• 289-297 Chapter XXXVI: Mohammedanism – Mosques and prayers
• 298-307 Chapter XXXVII: Mohammedan infidels – Prospects of evangelization – Toleration
• 308-322 Chapter XXXVIII: Early Christianity in Egypt – Persecutions and triumphs – Destruction of idolatry
• 323-337 Chapter XXXIX: Hope for Egypt – The Cops, their history and ritual – A plea for missions
• 338-345 Chapter XL: Heliopolis, the city of Joseph – The pyramids and sphinx - Egypt a sepulchre
• 347-358 Appendix
• Einband
• Maßstab/Farbkeil