E-text prepared by Chris Curnow, Ernest Schaal, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 32720-h.htm or 32720-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/32720/pg32720-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/32720/32720-h.zip) WHAT WE SAW IN EGYPT. Profusely Illustrated. [Illustration: ON THE DECK OF THE SLAVE BOAT.] [Illustration] [Illustration] London: The Religious Tract Society; 56, Paternoster Row; 65, St. Paul's Churchyard: and 164, Piccadilly [Illustration] Contents PAGE I. How we Fared in the Suez Desert 7 II. The First Night in Cairo 16 III. Sights in Cairo 22 IV. More Sights in Cairo 28 V. The Pyramids 40 VI. The Mosques 51 VII. Heliopolis, and other Sights and Scenes 56 VIII. A Long Day 66 IX. The Start up the Nile 75 X. Still up the Nile 84 XI. We go to Alexandria 101 XII. Conclusion 125 List of Illustrations PAGE ON THE DECK OF THE SLAVE BOAT. 2 SUEZ 10 ARAB SOLDIERS. 15 COURTYARD OF THE HOTEL. 17 EASTERN VEIL. 24 SIGHTS IN CAIRO. 26 EGYPTIAN PIPE-BEARER. 29 CURE FOR THE TOOTHACHE. 32 MOSQUE. 34 DONKEY-BOYS AT CAIRO. 41 EGYPTIAN SARCOPHAGUS. 47 THE SPHINX. 49 MOSQUE. 53 ARAB SITTING IN FRONT OF HIS TENT. 57 VISIT TO THE HAREM. 63 OLD GATEWAY. 68 THE FINDING OF MOSES. 71 BRICKMAKING (from _Egyptian Sculpture_). 78