Cairo to Kisumu : $b Egypt—The Sudan—Kenya ColonyCarpenter, Frank G. (Frank George)
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Cairo to Kisumu : $b Egypt—The Sudan—Kenya Colony
Carpenter, Frank G. (Frank George)
Egypt -- Description and travel; Kenya -- Description and travel; Sudan -- Description and travel
Cromer, Lord, efforts in behalf of public schools in Egypt, 77.
Currie, Dr. James, president of Gordon College at Khartum, 200.
Cush, Nubia, the land of, 140.
Damanhur, agricultural centre in Nile valley, 31.
Damietta, agricultural centre in Nile valley, 31.
Darfur, warlike natives of, 180.
Deir-el-Bahari Temple, inscriptions at, giving details of
construction of obelisks, 122.
Dervishes, fanatical actions of, 46.
Diocletian, Pompey’s Pillar a monument to, 9.
Donkeys, in Cairo, 52.
East Africa, agricultural possibilities in, 263.
Egypt, the development of, 5;
area and population, 25;
climate, 27;
long under foreign control, 27;
benefits under British, 28.
Egyptian Exploration Fund, archæological excavations at Luxor, 117;
unearths oldest known temple, 123.
Egyptian farmers, archaic processes of, 34.
Egyptians, ancient, their religious beliefs, 102.
El-Azhar, Mohammedan university at Cairo, 70.
Elephants, hunting of, in East Africa, 272.
Embalming, beginning of the art, 99.
Eritrea, Italian colony on the Red Sea, 224.
Excavations, archæological in Egypt, 88.
Farm land, value of, along the Nile, 29.
Farming, in the Nile Valley, 14, 29, 34.
Fast days of Mohammedans, observance of, 47.
Fellaheen, on their farms, 29.
Flies, pest of, in Egypt, 145.
Flour mills, primitive, of Omdurman, 198.
Forestry in Kenya Colony, 281.
Fuel, scarcity of, in Egypt, 17.
Game, East African, abundant along Uganda Railway, 243;
outfitting hunters at Nairobi, 257, 269;
destructive to telegraph lines, 260;
rigid hunting laws, 270;
great variety of game to be found, 271;
cost of an expedition, 275.
Game preserve, one mile each side of Uganda Railway, 245, 286.
Gezirah, the granary of Central Africa, 177.
Girls, schooling for, in Egypt, 77.
Gizeh, Pyramids of, 79.
Gordon, General, statue of, at Khartum, 171;
story of his bravery, and his death, 182.
Gordon College, at Khartum, 200.
Goshen, through the Land of, 22.
Grain market at Omdurman, 198.
Greeks, the money lenders of Egypt, 50.
Gregory, Professor J. W., explores and names the Great Rift Valley,
285.
Guardafui, Cape, a desolate rock, 226.
Gum arabic, one of the money crops of the Sudan, 206.
Harvard College, archæological research work in Egypt, 89, 117.
Hatcheries, chicken, in Egypt, 40.
Hathor, excavation of statue of, 124.
Hatshepsut, Queen, tomb of, at Luxor, 88;
ruins of her great temple, 124.
Heliopolis, visit to site of ancient city, 85.
Herodotus, description of the Great Pyramid, 81, 82.
Hinde, Capt. Sidney L., explorer and hunter, 290.
Hippopotamuses, hunting of, in East Africa, 274.
Horses, Arabian, comparatively scarce, 234.
Howling Dervishes, fanatical antics of the, 46.
Incubators, long in use in Egypt, 39.
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