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Produced by: Chuck Greif

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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