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CONTENTS.




Project of a Scientific Expedition under the auspices of the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.—Members of the Expedition.—Its scope and intention.—Arrangements with Messrs. T. Cook and Son.—Preparations for the journey.—Apparatus.—Departure and route to Venice.—Embarkation on board the "Tanjore."—The Adriatic and Brindisi.—Fellow passengers.—The Mediterranean.—Splendid effects by nightpages 1–10.


Arrival at Port Said.—General Sir E. Wood and party.—Leave taking of fellow passengers.—We proceed by steamer to Alexandria.—Mr. Le Mesurier's proposals for preventing the silting up of the Ship Canal.—The harbour of Alexandria.—Courtesy of Her Majesty's Consul, Mr. Cookson.—Condition of Alexandria since the bombardment.—Pompey's Pillar.—Leave Alexandria for Cairo.—The Nile Delta.—Habits and mode of cultivation by the Egyptians.—Mehemet Ali's plan for encouraging the planting of the palm.—Cause of the fertility of Egypt.—Source of sediments in the Nile waters.—Visit to the Pyramids.—Their present condition owing to the removal of the outer casings.—Mr. Hart's adventure.—The great bakhsheesh question.—The Sphinx, and Temple of the Sphinx.—Visit to Jebel Mokattam with Dr. Schweinfurth.—View from the summit.—The Art Museum, Cairo.—Nile oscillations.—Arrival of the Towâra Arabs.—Departure from Cairo, and journey to Suez.—Visit to Jebel Attâkah.—Arab sailorspages 11–27.


Arrival at Moses' Wells.—First Sabbath in the Desert.—Our camp and its furniture.—Start on Monday morning "on the track of the Israelites."—Proposed route through the Sinaitic Peninsula.—Geological questions to be determined.—Group of Egyptian vultures.—Tâset Bisher.—The scene of Prof. Palmer's murder.—Account thereof from our Arabs.—Camp at Wâdy Sudur.—Desert scenery.—The jerboa.—Beauty of the desert melon.—My camel and his driver, Saia.—Jebel Hamâm.—Wâdy Gharandel, the