CONTENTS. 



PART I. 



Introduction 1, 2 



CHAPTER I. 



Preparatory Details, and Sport in the Delta. 



Alexandria — Selecting a Dragoman — Town of Alexandria — 

 "Birds of Prey "— Ramleh— Pompey's Pillar— The Daha- 

 beah — Cairo — Sport — Waders and Falcons — Pyramids — 

 Fossil Forest — Tombs of the Caliphs — The Start — A 

 Maternal Dragoman — Life on board the Dahabeah — 

 Dango — Sport — A Village — Native Guards — Mirage — 

 Snipe-shooting — Consul at Damietta — Return to Cairo — 

 Rare Birds 3-28 



: .■ CHAPTER II. 

 The Geology of Egypt 29-39 



