- 'As good an imitation of Monte Carlo as the law allows.'
- 16th century galley
During the winter of 1537-1538, the naval yards of Constantinople were busy with the preparations for a new fleet which should take the offensive against the Venetians and the Christians generally. In the spring Barbarossa got out into the Archipelago and, raiding at will, swept up another batch of prisoners to serve as galley slaves for the new ships. Meanwhile, the Mediterranean states nerved themselves for a final effort. Venice contributed 81 galleys, the Pope sent 36, and Spain, 30. Later the Emperor sent 50 transports with 10,000 soldiers, and 49 galleys, together with a number of large sailing ships. - A Bargain in the Ghezireh Gardens
- A Dancing-Girl
- A Daughter of the Nile
- A Dealer in Antiquities
- A Descendant of the Prophet
- A Guardian of the Temple
- A Käah
- A Karnak Beggar
A Karnak Beggar - A Lady adorned with the Kurs and Safa
- A Lady in the Dress worn in private
- A lady of the Harem
A lady of the Harem - A Luxor Dancing-girl
- A Nubian Belle
A Nubian Belle - A nurse
- A Party at Dinner or Supper
- A Peddler
- A Shadoof for drawing water from the Nile
The term sakkieh is applied to all the apparatus for raising water, but the proper name for the Egyptian pole and bucket is shadoof. The shadoof is very ancient, as it is represented on the walls of the tombs constructed three or four thousand years ago. - A Sha′er, with his accompanying Violist
- A Son of the Desert
- A Syce
A stranger is impressed during his first days in Cairo with the spectacle of runners in front of carriages to warn people to get out of the way. These fellows have a picturesque dress and muscular legs, and their duty is to clear the way, by keeping a few yards in advance and warning people that a carriage is coming. An appendage of this sort is called a syce, and formerly it was necessary that he should be a native born Egyptian, but at present a Nubian may aspire to the position, and it is not unusual to see syces of the complexion of charcoal in front of elegant carriages. - A tattooed Girl
- A Turk
A Turk standing beside an urn with a woman in the background - A Turkish 'Cavass'
The police were very civil, and the “cavass,” or police officer on duty in front of our party, kept the population from crowding us in conveniently close. The “cavass” was arrayed in gorgeous style, and a franc slipped into his hand proved a good investment; where he had before used words he now used a stick, and soon convinced the multitude that it had no rights which he or we were bound to respect. We had front places, and the fellow even brought a couple of bricks on which the lady of our party could stand and thus preserve her feet from the dampness of the earth. - A Turkish cigarette girl
A Turkish cigarette girl - A Turkish Hamaal, or carrier
- a0022 frontispiece
- All, the Pilot
- An Arab School
An Arab school is a curiosity. The pupils study their lessons aloud, and make the place about as noisy as a political meeting, and how they can learn, any thing is a surprise to a person from the Occident, where silence is considered desirable in a school-room. - An Artist in the Mouskie
- An Assiût Donkey
- An Assuan Beggar
- An Egyptian Eunuch
An Egyptian Eunuch - An Egyptian Water-Carrier
- An Egyptian Woman
An Egyptian Woman - Arabs conversing with a Turk
Arabs conversing with a Turk - At Komombos
- At Lady Grenfell’s Masquerade Ball
- At Philæ
- At the Races, Khedival Sporting Club
- A’z’kee and Mankals
- Baalbek
Baalbek (anc. Heliopolis), a town of the Buka‛a (Coelesyria), altitude 3850 ft., situated E. of the Litani and near the parting between its waters and those of the Asi. Pop. about 5000, including 2000 Metawali and 1000 Christians (Maronite and Orthodox). Since 1902 Baalbek has been connected by railway with Rayak (Rejak) on the Beirut-Damascus line, and since 1907 with Aleppo. It is famous for its temple ruins of the Roman period, before which we have no record of it, certain though it be that Heliopolis is a translation of an earlier native name, in which Baal was an element. - bedouin
- Bedouin 2
- Bedouin Maiden
- Bedouin shaking his fist
- Bedouin smoking with hookah
- Beni-Hassan
- Benjamin of Tudela in the Desert of Sahara
This Jew was the son of a rabbi of Tudela, a town in Navarre, and he was called Benjamin of Tudela. It seems probable that the object of his voyage was to make a census of his brother Jews scattered over the surface of the Globe, but whatever may have been his motive, he spent thirteen years, from 1160-1173, exploring nearly all the known world, and his narrative was considered the great authority on this subject up to the sixteenth century. - Beyrout and the Mountains of Lebanon
Beyrout and the Mountains of Lebanon - Bismillah
A few years ago some Greek and Italian scoundrels “put up a job” to plunder one of the mosques at Constantinople. They were weeks at work, perfecting their plans, and managed to get their plunder safe on board a schooner which was waiting in the sea of Marmora, a mile or two from shore. They sailed away in triumph, but the electric telegraph, which has brought so many scoundrels to justice, caused them to be overhauled at the Dardanelles. The schooner was captured and brought back to Constantinople; the property was returned to the mosque, and the enterprising gentlemen who removed it without authority received the polite attentions of a Turkish headsman. Not only they, but the entire crew of the schooner down to the cook and cabin boy—also a cat and two kittens—were decapitated, without fear or favor. “Bismillah!” (in the name of God) shouted the executioner each time he swung his sword. “Inshallah!” (God is willing) responded the attendant, as he gathered up the heads one by one and stowed them away in a sack. - Boot-Blacks of Cairo
Boot-Blacks of Cairo - Bracelets
- Bread Seller in the streets of Cairo
Bread Seller in the streets of Cairo - Bridal Procession (Part I.)
- Bridal Procession (Part II.)
- British Influence
- Camel
- Camel and Palanquin
Camel and palanquin [covered canopy - usually refers to a covered litter carried by men ]