Contents

pp iii-iv

ILLUSTRATIONS

pp v-vi

ERRATA AND ADDENDA

pp vii-viii

CHAPTER I - Industry

pp 1-27

CHAPTER II - Use of Tobacco, Coffee, Hemp, Opium, &c

pp 28-34

CHAPTER III - The Bath

pp 35-45

CHAPTER IV - Games

pp 46-58

CHAPTER V - Music

pp 59-93

CHAPTER VI - Public Dancers

pp 94-102

CHAPTER VII - Serpent-Charmers, and Performers of Legerdemain tricks, &c

pp 103-113

CHAPTER VIII - Public Recitations of Romances. (Ab'oo Zeyd)

pp 114-125

CHAPTER IX - Public Recitations of Romances—continued. (Ez-Za'hir)

pp 126-145

CHAPTER X - Public Recitations of Romances—continued. (ʾAn'tar, and Del'hem'eh)

pp 146-162

CHAPTER XI - Periodical Public Festivals, &c (Those of the first three months of the Mohhammadan Year)

pp 163-205

CHAPTER XII - Periodical Public Festivals, &c.—continued (Those of the fourth and following months of the Mohhammadan Year)

pp 206-251

CHAPTER XIII - Periodical Public Festivals, &c.—continued (Those of the Solar Year)

pp 252-268

CHAPTER XIV - Private Festivities, &c

pp 269-284

CHAPTER XV - Death, and Funeral Rites

pp 285-307

SUPPLEMENT

1 - The Copts

pp 308-342

2 - The Jews of Egypt

pp 343-348

3 - The late Innovations in Egypt

pp 349-352

Appendix A - Female Ornaments

pp 353-369

Appendix B - Egyptian Measures, Weights, and Moneys

pp 370-374

Appendix C - Household Expenditure in Cairo

pp 375-376

Appendix D - Prayer of Moos'lim School-boys

pp 377-378

Index

pp 379-419