cient Mogul capital of India, 117-122;
tombs of Moslem emperors, 117-118;
squalor of common people, 119;
Mogul palaces and mosques, 119-120;
the Kutab Minar, 120-121;
memorials of the mutiny, 121-122;
fighting at Kabul gate, 122
Egypt, the land of tombs, pyramids and mummies, 137-164;
railroad ride from Port Said, 138;
features of the country, 138-139;
Cairo and its picturesque life, 138-142;
Luxor and Karnak ruins of finest temples of ancient Egypt, 143-149;
Thebes, tomb city of the Egyptian Kings, 150-155;
sailing down the Nile, 156-160;
Pyramids and the Sphinx, 161-164
Havelock, English General who fought his way into Lucknow and
helped defend the city against hordes of mutineers, 108
Hideyoshi, Napoleon of Japan, his memory revered, 19;
his castle, 29
Hongkong, greatest British port in the Orient, 65-71;
its fine public buildings and spacious water-front, 66;
splendid shops on Queen's road, 67;
picturesque street crowds, 68;
mixture of races, 68;
night scenes in native quarter, 69;
cable railway to the peak, 70;
costly residences on mountain side, 70;
Kowloon City, 71
India, the most interesting country of the Orient, 95-104;
Calcutta, most beautiful of Indian cities, 95-99;
Benares, the sacred city of the Hindoos, 100-105;
Lucknow and Cawnpore, cities of the mutiny, 106-110;
Agra and the Taj Mahal, 111-116;
Delhi, the ancient Mogul capital and now the British
capital, 117-122;
Bombay, the European gateway of India, 123-134;
the Parsees and their curious customs, 129-134
Japan, Yokohama, 3;
aspect of rural life, 4;
bull, the beast of burden 5;
the jinrikisha, 5;
great courtesy of all classes, 6;
women as field hands, 8;
Tokio, the picturesque capital, 10-15;
Nikko, city of temples, 16-21;
Kyoto, the ancient capital, famous for gardens and art work, 22-27;
railway travel, 22-23;
Kobe,28-33;
Osaka, chief manufacturing city, 29;
Inland Sea, 30;
Nagasaki, 30-32;
development of sense of beauty, 34-37;
influence of the garden on artistic sense, 34-35;
are the Japanese honest? 28-39;
influence of Christianity, 41-42;
the sampan, 43;
influence of military training, 45-46;
loyalty to country, 46-47
Karnak, the greatest temple of ancient Egypt, 147-149;
its enormous size, 147;
its hypostile hall, one of the wonders of the world, 147-148;
hieroglyphs of Seti and Rameses
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