A Descendant of the Prophet
A Guardian of the Temple
A Karnak Beggar
A Karnak Beggar
A Luxor Dancing-girl
A Bargain in the Ghezireh Gardens
A Dancing-Girl
A Daughter of the Nile
A Dealer in Antiquities
Thebes, January 2, 1898
Tombs of the Kings, Thebes
The Present Situation
The Sheik of the Pyramids
The Slipper Bazaar, Cairo, January 22, 1898
The man who has ‘been there before
Shepheard’s Hotel, Cairo
Shopping
Statue of Thothmes, Karnak
Temple of Ti
The Bridge
On the Road to Cairo
Our Bisharin Friends, Assuan
Our Christmas Dinner, Esneh, December 23
Posing
Rameses the Great
Salem Ghesiri Dragoman
Most of the day was spent with Baedeker
On Grenfell Hill. The Keeper of the Tomb
On the Bank at Komombos
On the Bank
In a Coffee-house, Cairo
In the Fish-Market
Indifference
Karnak, January 2, 1898
Lunching in Karnak
Girl with goat
Guardians of the Temple
His Highness Prince Mahomet Ali, Cairo, February 14, 1898
His Highness Prince Mahomet Ali, Cairo, February 14, 1898
Home Visitors
Camel-back
Christmas Night—“Auld Lang Syne.”
Christmas, 1897
Egyptian High Life
At Philæ
At the Races, Khedival Sporting Club
Beni-Hassan
British Influence
'As good an imitation of Monte Carlo as the law allows.'
An Assuan Beggar
At Komombos
At Lady Grenfell’s Masquerade Ball
A Peddler
A Son of the Desert
All, the Pilot
An Artist in the Mouskie
An Assiût Donkey
Hemalees
The hemalee carries, upon his back, a vessel (called “ibreek”) of porous grey earth. This vessel cools the water. Sometimes the hemalee has an earthen kulleh of water scented with “móyet zahr” (or orange-flower-water), prepared from the flowers of the “náring” (a bitter orange), for his best customers; and often a sprig of náring is stuck in the mouth of his ibreek.
Interior of a Mosque
Interior of a Mosque To form a proper conception of the ceremonials of the Friday-prayers, it is necessary to have some idea of the interior of a mosque. A mosque in which a congregation assembles to perform the Friday-prayers is called “gámë’.” The mosques of 68Cairo are so numerous, that none of them is inconveniently crowded on the Friday; and some of them are so large as to occupy spaces three or four hundred feet square. They are 69mostly built of stone, the alternate courses of which are generally coloured externally red and white. Most commonly a large mosque consists of porticoes surrounding a square open court, in the centre of which is a tank or a fountain for ablution. One side of the building faces the direction of Mekkeh, and the portico on this side, being the principal place of prayer, is more spacious than those on the three other sides of the court.
Kemengeh
Kánoon
Fellah Women
Fellah Women The dress of a large proportion of those women of the lower orders who are not of the poorest class consists of a pair of trousers or drawers (similar in form to the shintiyán of the ladies, but generally of plain white cotton or linen), a blue linen or cotton shirt (not quite so full as that of the men), a burko’ of a kind of coarse black crape, and a dark blue tarhah of muslin or linen. Some wear over the shirt, or instead of the latter, a linen tób, of the same form as that of the ladies. The sleeves of this are often turned up over the head; either to prevent their being incommodious, or to supply the place of a tarhah.