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PYRAMIDS AND PROGRESS.

Arabi, opinion as to how he should have
been dealt with, 90

Arabs and Nubians transformed into trust-
worthy servants by Cook and Son, 173

Arch, the, not used by the Egyptians for
stone buildings, 112

Arsinoë, the Fayum given as a dowry to,
72 ; a gold coin of, ib.

Artist in bronze, tomb of a, 166

Ashmolean Museum, fragments of statues
from the Fayum now in the, 69

Assa, a scarab of, 180

Assiout, dams in course of construction at,
65 ; reservoir at, 260

Assouan, 197; quarries, syenite obtained
from, 202; connected with Cairo by rail-
way, 213; its handsome boulevard, ¿6.;
the healthiest spot in Egypt, 215 ; a dairy-
established by the Sirdar, 217 ; inscrip-
tions in the neighbourhood of, 218. ;
warning to tourists, 220 ; a new hotel,

-----Water Works : dams for impounding

the Nile water, 65 ; a visit to, 245 : the
dyke described, 250 ; progress of the
works, 258; the foundation of the great
dam, ib. ; made possible by British
enterprise, 264

Astronomers, the Egyptians great, 144

Astronomical knowledge led to the dis-
covery of dates of founding of temples
144 ; cultivated at Denderah, 121

Aten, memorials of its worship destroyed,
96

Augustus, 231

Bab-el-Kibir, filled up and blocked, 210,
259; gun-boats wrecked at, 239

Babylon, Old, ruins of, at Cairo, 14 ; Roman
walls at, 19

Bahr Yusuf, 64 ; its waters will soon be
doubled,

Baker's, Sir B., scheme for storing the Nile
waters, 255

Ballaneh, 109

Barrage, the old, a picnic to, 268 ; useless
as first constructed, 271 ; suggestions of
English engineers for saving it, 272. ; Sir
Colin Moncrieff undertakes to preserve it,

Bats cause annoyance in Temple at Den-
derah, 125

Bedrasheen, a station near the site of Mem-
phis, 45 .

Belzoni, opened the Second Pyramid, 34;
discovers Seti's tomb, 158; and Abu
Simbel, 236

Benha, celebrated for its oranges and grapes,
8

Beni Hasan, 99

Bishareen, 203 ; their ladies' milliners' bills,

Book of the Dead, texts from, on the walls
of Seti's tomb, 158

Boorish traveller, a, chastised, 117

Borchardt, Herr, discovers a tri-lingual in-
scription, 200

Botti, Dr., Curator of the Museum at Alex-
andria, 11

Britain, becomes the paramount power in
Egypt, 134

British cemetery at Luxor, 142

------explorers, difficulties of, now removed,

118

-----enterprise in Egypt, 264

Brown, Major, his guide-book for the
Fayum, 63, noie, 65; hopes to restore
its ancient fertility, 74

-----, and Major Lyons, their archaeological

knowledge, 32

Bubastis, mounds at, explored by Dr.
Naville, 7

Builders of temples at Luxor ali known,
143

Bulls, the Sacred, vaults of, discovered by
Mariette, 47 ; the worship of the, no part
of the cult of the ist Dynasty, 48

Cœsarion, proclaimed heir to the throne of
Egypt, 130; he is put to death by
Augustus, 131

Cairo, 17 ; street scenes in, it. ; ancient, de-
scribed, 19 ; citadel of, 22 ; the mosque in
the citadel contains a remarkable well,
ib. ', splendid panorama from the citadel
of, 23; old route from, to the Pyramids,
24

Cairo Museum, the French directorate of,
their jealousy, 32 ; the authorities of the,
issue no licences for excavating the pyra-
mid-fields, 35