Produced by Mark C. Orton, Linda McKeown, Julia Neufeld (illustrations were generously made available by The Internet Archive) and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Small capital text has been replaced with all capitals. [Illustration: ONE OF THE CAMEL CORPS OF EGYPT] The Rulers of The Mediterranean BY RICHARD HARDING DAVIS AUTHOR OF "THE WEST FROM A CAR-WINDOW" "GALLEGHER" "VAN BIBBER AND OTHERS" ETC. ILLUSTRATED [Illustration: Publisher's Logo] NEW YORK HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS 1894 Copyright, 1893, by HARPER & BROTHERS. _All rights reserved._ TO HON. EDWARD C. LITTLE EX-DIPLOMATIC-AGENT AND CONSUL-GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES TO EGYPT CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE I THE ROCK OF GIBRALTAR 1 II TANGIER 37 III FROM GIBRALTAR TO CAIRO 72 IV CAIRO AS A SHOW-PLACE 102 V THE ENGLISHMEN IN EGYPT 139 VI MODERN ATHENS 178 VII CONSTANTINOPLE 198 ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE ONE OF THE CAMEL CORPS OF EGYPT _Frontispiece_ THE MAN FROM DETROIT 5 THE ROCK FROM THE BAY 9 TYPES 13 GIBRALTAR AS SEEN ACROSS THE NEUTRAL GROUND 15 AN ENGLISH SENTRY 19 A SPANISH SENTRY 21 SIGNAL STATION ON THE TOP OF THE ROCK 25 CANNONS MASKED BY BUSHES 29 TEA IN THE OFFICERS' QUARTERS 33 BREAD MERCHANTS AT THE GATE 41 SANITARY OUTFIT DUMPING REFUSE OVER THE WALL 47 A WOMAN OF TANGIER 53 WATER-VENDER AT THE DOOR OF A PRIVATE HOUSE 57 A STREET DANCER 63 IN THE PRISON 67 MALTESE PEDDLERS 75 STREET OF SANTA LUCIA, MALTA 79 BRINDISI 85 PILLAR OF CAESAR AT BRINDISI 89