APPROACH TO ISMAILIA BY THE SUEZ CANAL 93 STEAM-DREDGE AT WORK IN THE SUEZ CANAL 97 BAZAR OF A WORKER IN BRASS 105 GROUP OF NATIVES IN FRONT OF SHEPHEARD'S HOTEL 109 A BRITISH SQUARE FORMED IN FRONT OF THE PYRAMIDS 117 SHADOW OF THE PYRAMID OF CHEOPS 123 A SECTION OF THE PYRAMID 129 DAHABEEYAHS ON THE NILE BEFORE CAIRO 135 EGYPTIAN INFANTRY IN THEIR DIFFERENT UNIFORMS 141 RIAZ PASHA, PRIME-MINISTER OF EGYPT 145 AN EGYPTIAN LANCER 149 TIGRANE PASHA, MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS 153 A CAMEL CORPS PATROL AT WADI HALFA 157 H. H. ABBAS II., KHEDIVE OF EGYPT 161 THE GUN MULE OF THE MULE BATTERY 165 LORD CROMER, THE ENGLISH DIPLOMATIC AGENT IN EGYPT 169 A GUN OF THE MULE BATTERY IN ACTION 173 GREEK SOLDIER IN THE NATIONAL (ALBANIAN) UNIFORM 179 GREEK PEASANT GIRL 181 THE UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS 183 ALBANIAN PEASANT WOMAN 186 ALBANIAN PEASANT WOMAN 187 GREEK PEASANT 188 ALBANIAN PEASANT IN THE STREETS OF ATHENS 189 POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL 191 AN OLD ATHENIAN OF THE PRESENT DAY 194 A GREEK SHEPHERD 195 GENERAL VIEW OF CONSTANTINOPLE 201 ONE OF THE SULTAN'S PALACES ON THE BOSPORUS 205 A FIRE COMPANY OF CONSTANTINOPLE 209 STREET DOGS OF CONSTANTINOPLE 215 GUARD OF CAVALRY PRECEDING THE SULTAN TO THE MOSQUE 219 EXTERIOR OF THE MOSQUE OF ST. SOPHIA 225 [Illustration: THE RULERS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN] I THE ROCK OF GIBRALTAR [Illustration: Gibraltar] If you have always crossed the Atlantic in the spring-time or in the summer months, as do most tourists, you will find that leaving New York in the winter is more like a relief expedition to the north pole than the setting forth on a pleasure tour to the summer shores of the Mediterranean.