On the great Aswan Dam _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE The bead sellers of Cairo 2 The veiled women 3 On the cotton docks of Alexandria 6 Nubian girls selling fruit 7 Woman making woollen yarn 14 Fresh-cut sugar cane 15 One of the mill bridges 18 The ancient sakieh 19 The native ox 19 Water peddlers at the river 22 Women burden bearers 23 Threshing wheat with norag 30 A corn field in the delta 30 The pigeon towers 31 In the sugar market 38 Flat roofs and mosque towers of Cairo 39 Tent of the sacred carpet 46 The Alabaster Mosque 47 “Buy my lemonade!” 54 A street in old Cairo 55 Gates of the Abdin Palace 62 The essential kavass 63 In the palace conservatory 66 The famous Shepheard’s Hotel 67 Learning the Koran 67 Approaching El-Azhar 70 In the porticos of El-Azhar 71 The Pyramids 78 Mr. Carpenter climbing the Pyramids 79 Standing on the Sphinx’s neck 82 Taking it easy at Helouan 83 View of the Pyramids 86 Uncovering tombs of ancient kings 87 The alabaster Sphinx 94 The great museum at Cairo 95 Students at Asyut College 102 American College at Asyut 103