Arabs, 5, 14, 17; carrying arms, 18; clothes, 20; characteristics, 209; conversation, 24; dance, 44; horses, 27; hospitality, 22; invasion, 5, 89, 94; at Maragi, 185; refugees, 201; songs, 256; tents, 19; wealth, 26; wells, 43; welcome rains, 32; wives, 39; women, 21 Arasieh, lake, 103 Architecture, Siwan, 133, 134 Areg, El, oasis of, 183, 184 Argoul, 158, 244 Arms, seizing, 73 Arusia, sect, 151 Assiut, 184 Athanasius, St., 88 Athenians, 79 Atlantic, 94 Atlantis, 191 Augerin, Bir, 43 Augustus, 88 Australian Light Horse, 125 Awlad Ali, 6 Azhar university, 119 Bachelors, custom of, 98 Bagbag, 15 Bahrein oasis, 115, 183, 184 Bairam, Kurban, feast of, 246 Baird, Miss, xxi, 201 Bakhr-Wahash, wild ox, 202 Bakshish, 176 Bangles, rolling the, 235 Barley, 6 Barrani, 13, 14; evacuation, 124; reoccupation, 126 Bashu Habun, 176 Basket making, 199 Bates, Oric, 75, 76 Bathing, 61, 63; bride, 216; at Matruh, 8 Bazaars, 141 Beda, el, 120 Behera, 110 Beit el Mal, 244 Ben Ayas, historian, 90 Ben Soleim, tribe of, 93 Bequests, religious, 235 Berbers, 2, 88, 91, 94, 95, 209; from Europe, 20, xvii; dialect, 146; sacrifices, 234 Berseem, custom of, 162 Bikaner, Maharajah, xxiv Bilad el Kelab, 57 Bir Hakim, 123, 131 Birds, 31, 203; eggs, 204 Birth-rate at Siwa, 2 Bisharin trackers, 53 Blossoms, 202 Booba, story of, 173 Booza camp, 40 Bramley, Captain Jennings, xxii Bread, on trek, 52 Bride, customs of, 213, 216 Browne at Siwa, 100 Budget, economy on, 34 Butin, Colonel, 103 Byzantines, 89 Cairns, rock, 52 Calamis, statue by, 80 Cambyses, lost army of, 80 Camel Corps, 2, 15, 26, 37, 38; barracks, 49; exploring with, 195; as garrison, 131, 135; soldiers, 41; songs of, 54; wives of, 62, 100 Camels, 25; riding, 48; fly, 202; in rain, 32; stories of, 36; drinking, 45; as transport, 260 Camp, in the desert, 49 Canaanite migration, xvii Canal, Suez, 123 Caravans, 56, 86, 120 Carpets, 189; leather, 91; makers of, 201 Cars, 11 Carthage, 80 Cats, 170 Causeway, 104 Caves, at Kasr Hassuna, 119 Cemeteries, 223 Chess, 241 Childbirth preventives, 211 Children, 146, 200, 211, 213; festival, 237; murder of, 173 Christianity at Siwa, 88 Cimon, 81 Cisterns, 17, 43, 44 Civil War in Siwa, 99, 100 Clearchus, King, 78 Cleopatra, 9 Clerk, Coptic, 67 Climate, 263 Coastal belt, 5 Coastguards, 3, 4, 34, 37, 124; fight with Abdel Arti, 117; officers of, 124 Coffee, 67 Constantinople, 122, 189; Sayed Ahmed retires to, 131 Cooks, 44, 60 Corippus, 75 Cows, 203 Crime, 172 Crœsus, 76 Crops, 155, 156 Customs, 188 Cyprus, 81 Cyrene, 84 Cyrenians, 78 Daftar el Ain, 154 Dak bungalows, 13 Dakhla oasis, 128 Dakrur, Gebel, 83, 93 Danaus, 77 Dancing, 46, 253, 254, 257, 258; Arab, 45