Irrigation, raising cotton under, 19; conducted on scientific lines, 24, 30; the system of canals, 31; methods of raising the water to upper levels, 32; ancient works along the Nile, 130; new projects in the Sudan, and in Central Africa, 136, 178. Ismail Pasha, builds road to the Pyramids, 79; great aid to French in building of Suez Canal, 211. Ismailia, on the Suez Canal, 217. Italian colonies in East Africa, 225. Ivory, Elephant, from East Africa, 272. Jackson, Frederick J., acting governor of Kenya Colony, 261. Jewellery, ancient Egyptian, in Cairo Museum, 104; fine work of native artisans in the Sudan, 195; telegraph wire in great demand in Uganda, 250, 255, 256, 260, 277, 282, 296, 297. Jidda, “the burial place of Eve,” 218; the port for Mecca, 221. Kaaba, sacred meteorite in the, at Mecca, 223. Kantara, greatest military base in all history, 165. Karnak, obelisks at Temple of, 122. Kavirondo, among the naked, 293. Kenya, Mount, as seen from Nairobi, 244, 252. Khartum, the story of the city, 167. Kikuyus, among the, 277. Kilimanjaro, highest mountain on African continent, 244, 252. Kisumu, terminus of the Uganda Railway, 294. Kitchener, General, remarkable achievement in building of military railroad through desert, 153. Koran, early study of the, by Mohammedan children, 71. Kordofan, a stock raising region, 180. Kosseir, a Red Sea port, 220. Labour, difficulty of obtaining, in the Sudan, 173, 178; poorly paid in East Africa, 238, 249, 267. Lions, Temple of the, 140. Lions, carry off many workmen during construction of Uganda Railway, 250; hunting in East Africa, 270. Live stock in the Nile valley, 36. Locomotives, American, in Nubian desert, 155, 157. Lueder, A. B., American civil engineer in charge of construction of Uganda Railway bridges, 248. Luxor, archæological excavations at, 118. Mahdi, rise and fall of the, 188. Mahmudiyeh Canal, at Alexandria, 4, 18. Mansura, agricultural centre in Nile Valley, 31. Masai, a race of warriors and stock raisers, 287. Meat, scarcity of, in Egypt, 38; as sold in the bazaars, 55. Mecca, pilgrimages to, 42, 221; inaccessible to Christians, 222. Medina, extent of pilgrimages to, 222. Mehemet Ali, constructs canal from Alexandria to the Nile, 4; introduces long staple cotton, 14. Memnon, Colossi of, size of the statues, 121. Meneptah, mummy of, in Cairo Museum, 97. Metropolitan Museum, archæological excavations at Luxor, 117. Midwinter, Captain, manager of Sudan military railroad, 155. Mocha coffee, chiefly marketed through Aden, Arabia, 229. Mombasa, port for Equatorial Africa, 208; terminus of Uganda Railway and port of entry for British East Africa, 236; history dates back to fifteenth century, 239. Money of the Sudan, the different media of exchange, 194.