Morendat, Kenya Colony experimental farm at, 286. Mosques, of Cairo, 42, 43. Mummies, in Cairo Museum, 96; why and how bodies were so prepared, 99. Nairobi, more than a mile above sea level, 247; the capital of Kenya Colony, 252. Naivasha, Lake, possibilities for settlers on, 286. Nandi, more civilized than other East Africans, 282. Nefert, Princess, statue of, in Cairo Museum, 101. Nefertari, temple of, 127. Nile, dams and irrigation works of the, upbuilding Egypt, 5; Cotton production along the, 13; all tillable land in Egypt formed by, 23; length of, 26. Nile River, source and tributaries, 129. Nubia, travelling through, 140. Obelisks, how made and transported, 122. Omdurman, stronghold of the Mahdi, 168, 187. Ophthalmia, prevalent in Egypt, 146. Ostriches, hunting of, in East Africa, 271. Palestine Military Railway, a great feat of construction, 165. Panama Canal, compared to the Suez Canal, 212. Perim, Island of, a British possession, 229. Philæ, temples on the Island of, 146. Pompey’s Pillar, at Alexandria, 9. Poultry industry, of Egypt, 39. Port Said, “wickedest city from London to the Far East,” 217. Port Sudan, on the Red Sea, 224. Pyramids, the, 6, 22; visit to the, 79; revisited under more modern conditions, 87; how constructed, 91, 93; other Egyptian pyramids, 93. Quarries of Aswan, furnished the stone for obelisks and temples of ancient Egypt, 148. Ra-Hotep, Prince, statue of, in Cairo Museum, 101. Railroad fares in Egypt and the Sudan, 149, 154. Railroads of Egypt and the Sudan, 151; difficulties with desert sand, 157. Rameses, King, mummy in Cairo Museum, 96. Rameses II, Temple of, 122; gigantic statues of, 127; temple of Abu Simbel, 140. Red Sea, travelling on the, 208, 218. Reisner, Dr. George, archæological research work, in Egypt, 89. Religion of the ancient Egyptians, 102. Rhinoceroses, hunting in East Africa, 274. Rift Valley, the Great, a trough through the African continent, 285. Rosetta, agricultural centre in Nile valley, 31. Roth, a young Swiss who broke up the slave trade of Upper Egypt, 184. Sakkarah, Pyramids of, 81, 93. Schools, in Egypt, Mohammedan, 71; common and private, 76; of the Sudan, 204. Sennar, great dam under construction at, 165. Seti I, mummy of, in Cairo Museum, 97, 98. Sewing machines, American, sold in the Sudan, 196. Sheep, fat-tailed, of Egypt, 37. Shellal, the port of, 146. Shendi, on Sudan military railroad, 158. Slatin Pasha, author of “Fire and Sword in the Sudan”, 181, 186. Slave traffic, breaking up the, 183. Somaliland, British, formerly belonging to Egypt, 226. Somaliland, Italian, a possession of little value, 225. Sphinx, view of from the Great Pyramid, 81; visit to, 84. Suakim, on the Red Sea, 224.