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CONTENTS Page North Wales Society of Friends of Foreigners in Distress "View" Dinner of St. Bartholomew's Hospital The Clerkenwell Explosion recalled Welcome to the Duke of Edinburgh The Duke Shot at near Sydney, New South Wales A Brilliant Festival Birth of Princess Victoria Abergeldie and Dunrobin Dr. Norman Macleod The New University Building's at Glasgow Glasgow and its University Visit to the Emperor Napoleon III at Compiegne A Hunting Accident A Little Memorial Copenhagen, Stockholm, and Berlin The Prince Invested with the Order of the Black Eagle To Vienna and Trieste. CHAPTER XIII. EGYPT, CONSTANTINOPLE, AND THE CRIMEA - - 98 1869 Embarkation on H.M.S. Ariadne at Trieste Mourad Pasha and Abd-el- Kader Bey Landing at Alexandria Received at Cairo by the Khedive " Procession of the Holy Carpets " A Visit to the Harem of " La Grande Princesse " A Curious Feast Strange Music and Dancing The Prince's Party for the Nile Journey The Duke of Sutherland's Party The Start up the River Tourist Curiosity Looking for Crocodiles The Princess and the Natives Sport on the Nile Achmet Hassan A French Salute Siout The American Mission School Girgeh Keneh A Mishap The Princess's First Temple The Princess and Cleopatra Luxor A Warm Reception Karnak The Valley of Kings Thebes Karnak Temple Illuminated Esneh Edfu A Fire Aboard A Black Sheep Saved Assouan A Day of Small Mishaps Adventurous Natives The Two Parties Separate Wideawake Crocodiles A Crocodile Shot at Last Abou-Simbel The Second Cataract The Return Journey Begun Marriage Anniversary A Wreck Back to Cairo The Pyramids The Sphinx The Citadel and the Great Mosque The Bir Yusef Tombs of the Caliphs A Splendid Dinner Miss Whately's Mission School At the House of Mourad Pasha Another Visit to "La Grande Princesse" The Princess in Disguise The Suez Canal Works Shalouf Serapeum Ismailia Port Said Alexandria The Fort of the Dardanelles Gallipoli Constantinople Brilliant Festivities The Crimea Sebastopol Balaclava Lazareff Inkerman Cathcart's Hill The State of the British Graves To Greece via Constantinople A Sad Incident Brindisi Turin By Macon and Paris Home. CHAPTER XIV. PRINCELY LABOURS 136 1869-1870 Varied Activities Royal Geographical Society Sir Samuel Baker Sir George Back Professor Nordenskiold Mrs. Somerville Earlswood Asylum Dr. Andrew Reed King's Lynn and its Alexandra Dock London Orphan Asylum At Worsley Hall, Seat of Earl of Ellesmere Royal Agricultural Society's Show Christopher Sykes, M.P. Albert Dock, Hull, opened George Peabody The Prince Unveils a Statue of Peabody Mr. Motley's Speech In Germany for the Waters Sport in the Highlands Chester Town Hall Shooting at Scarborough and Six- Mile Bottom Birth of Princess Maud In Residence at Gunton Park The Scottish Hospital The Royal Scottish Corporation At Various Seats