Sketches in Egypt Written and illustrated by Charles Dana Gibson [Illustration: colophon] New York Doubleday & McClure Co. 1899 Copyright, 1899, by S. S. McCLURE Co. Copyright, 1899, by DOUBLEDAY & MCCLURE Co. [Illustration] ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE British Influence Frontispiece Indifference xi A Son of the Desert 3 A Peddler 5 The Slipper Bazaar, Cairo, January 22, 1898 7 Egyptian High Life 9 The Present Situation 12 A Dealer in Antiquities 13 The Bridge 14 A Village on the Road to the Pyramids 14 In the Fish-Market 15 Rameses the Great 17 At Lady Grenfell’s Masquerade Ball--on the eve of Kitchener’s departure for the Soudan 20 A Descendant of the Prophet--El Saied Ahmad Abdel Khalek Affandi, Sheik el Sadat 22 A Bargain in the Ghezireh Gardens 23 A Dancing-Girl 25 A Daughter of the Nile 27 On the Road to Cairo 31 Our Christmas Dinner, Esneh, December 23 35 Karnak, January 2, 1898 37 Salem Ghesiri, Dragoman 39 A Karnak Beggar 40 Ali, the Pilot 42 Statue of Thothmes, Karnak 43 Lunching in Karnak 45 An Assiût Donkey 47 Temple of Ti 50 Tombs of the Kings, Thebes 51 A Guardian of the Temple 53 “Most of the day was spent with Baedeker” 55