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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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