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NUMBER THIRTY. The Suez Canal an accomplished fact; Reasons alleged for its fail- ure; Bugbears Exploded; Ferdinand de Lesseps; Is it a pecuniary success? Rates of Toll; New Lines of Steamers; The Tides; Width, Depth, and Rate of speed allowed; Mammoth Dredging Machines; Lac Amer; Lake Timsah; Ismailia; Lake Menzaleh; Port Said, the "Silver Gate;" The Sweet-water Canal; "Water is Gold;" "Have a shine, Sir?" A Showy old Turk; Across the Desert; Egyptian Soldiers; An amusing sight; Mud Hovels for Peasants, and Palaces for Princes; Arrive at "Grand Cairo". .210-218 NUMBER THIRTY-ONE. Cairo; Church bells do not make a Sabbath; Dragomen; Scenes in front of the Hotel; Peddlers and Mountebanks; Donkeys and don- key boys; A "Donk" with an illustrious name; The Fez; The Bazaars; Sprinkling Machines; The "Tight of the Harem;" Old Abraham comes to grief; The Citadel; The Mamelukes' Leap; The Great Mosque; Island of Rhoda; Moses in the bulrushes; The Nilometer; Josepli's Granaries; The Shoobra Gardens; A Mo- hamedan's Paradise; Mohumet Ali; Heliopolis; The Virgin's sye- amore tree; Dancing Dervishes...... .219-228 NUMBER THIRTY-THREE. El Kaherah; The Nile; Ancient knowledge of the Egyptians; Lost Arte; Visit to Memphis and Sakharra; An early start; Sand Storm in the Desert, The City of the Pharaohs; Temple of Apis: Cemetery of the Sacred Bulls; Lunch among the "Old Masters;" An "Antique" factory; Typhoons at sea and Siroccos on land; Pyramids of Ghizah; Egyptian Soldiers; Fertility of the soil; Old Cheops; Up we go; View from the summit; The King's chamber; The Sphynx. .22-237