BRICKMAKING (from _Egyptian Sculpture_). 79 THE SACRED IBIS. 80 SCENE ON THE NILE. 83 EASTERN BAZAAR. 88 EGYPTIAN LOOM. 90 FISHING. 91 POTTERS. 92 IDOL PAINTERS. 93 HEAD OF CROCODILE. 96 RUINS OF THEBES. 97 GRAND HARP. 99 BAGGAGE CAMEL. 102 DROMEDARY. 105 INTERIOR OF GREAT TEMPLE AT ESNEH. 107 RUINS OF COLONNADE AT PHILÆ. 114 PAPYRUS ON THE NILE. 116 EGYPTIAN TEMPLE. 120 MARKETING IN ALEXANDRIA. 126 [Illustration] WHAT WE SAW IN EGYPT. CHAPTER I. HOW WE FARED IN THE SUEZ DESERT. The welcome cry of "Suez! Suez!" resounded throughout the steamship _Bentinck_ one November morning. The passage up the Red Sea had been rough, and every one was glad to exchange the rolling and pitching of the vessel for land travelling. The railway between Cairo and Suez was not yet finished, and travellers crossed the desert in vans, each of which held six persons and was drawn by two horses and two mules. Our cavalcade consisted of eight of these high-wheeled vans. The fifth team of vans contained four grown-up people and two children, Hugh and Lucy. It was a lovely day, the sky blue and clear as on the finest summer day in England. Some little time after leaving Suez, a spot was pointed out to us as the place at or near which the Israelites crossed the Red Sea. The waters were now calm and peaceful; they lay gleaming like silver in the sunlight. But these very waters had been raised as a wall on the right hand and on the left for the children of Israel to pass through. Then, with a mighty surge, they had overwhelmed Pharaoh and his host, obedient to the word of God. This miracle of old seemed more real than it had ever done before, while we looked at the very waters on which it was worked. On we went. A blue cloudless sky above; below, sand, sand, sand: except where, every now and then, we jolted over large blocks of stone which sent us bobbing now to this side, now to that, sometimes almost into each other's faces, to the great amusement of the children. We stopped about every seven or eight miles, to change our horses and mules; generally at some little lonely building.