Abyssinia, Italy fails to gain territory in, 224; only country in Africa independent of Europe, 226; future development assured, 228. Aden, shipping point for Mocha coffee, 229; the Gibraltar of the Red Sea, 230. Agricultural Bank, benefit of to Egyptian farmers, 9. Agriculture, possibilities of, in Kenya Colony, 263. Airplane, possibilities in Africa, 160. Akabah, Gulf of, canal from, to Mediterranean Sea proposed, 220. Akhotupu, Queen, mummy of in Cairo Museum, 98. Akhnaton, Pharaoh, tomb of, 125. Alabaster Mosque, Cairo, 42, 43. Alexander, Dr. John, president of American College at Asyut, 108; on breaking up of the slave trade, 184. Alexandria, a modern city, 3. American College at Asyut, 106. American-built bridges: at Atbara, 154; on Uganda Railway, 247. American goods in East Africa, 259. Archæological researches in Egypt, 88; how territory was allotted to representatives of the different countries, 89. Aswan Dam, for harnessing the Nile, 128; Low constructed, 132. Asyut, United Presbyterian mission school at, 76; the American College at, 106. Atbara, on Sudan military railroad, 155. Bab-el-Mandeb, on the Red Sea, 219. Bazaars of Cairo, trading in the, 55. Bead money of the Sudan, 194. Bees, on the obelisks, 86. Bridges, American built, at Atbara, 154; on Uganda Railway, 247. British control of East Africa, 261. Boll weevil, in Egypt, 20. Book of the Dead, a record of the beliefs of the Pharaohs, 101. Boston Museum, archæological research work in Egypt, 89, 117. Buffalo, the Water, Arab tradition of its creation, 233. Cairo, largest city on African continent, 41, 49; in the bazaars of, 55. Cairo Museum, archæological treasures on exhibit at, 96. Camels, as farm animals, 35; use of, in Cairo, 52; in Arabia, 232. Cape-to-Cairo Railroad, travelling on the, 149. Cape-to-Cairo route, not a continuous railway trip, 164. Cattle, Egyptian, of same type through the centuries, 26. Cattle, humped, the beasts of burden of East Africa, 259. Cattle raising, possibilities in East Africa, 264. Central Africa, new irrigation projects for, 136. Charity, among Mohammedans, 78. Cheops, Pyramid of, 79. Cleopatra, in ancient Alexandria, 11. Coffee, first grown in Abyssinia, 227; produced in East Africa, 266. Coffee, Mocha, marketed through Aden, Arabia, 229. Colossi of Memnon, size of the statues, 121. Copts, number of, in Egypt, 8; shrewdest of Egyptians in business, 54; more intelligent than the Mohammedans, 112; the Jews of Egypt, 113; religious belief, 114; marriage customs, 116. Cotton, production of, on the Nile, 13; possibilities for, in the Sudan, 178; production and home manufacture in the Sudan, 196. Cotton Boll Weevil, does great damage in Egypt, 20. Creation, ancient Egyptian idea of the, 103.