Abbass Pacha,290Agitation in Egypt,369Aim of all men the same,186Alexandria, English fleet at, in 1798,11Nelson arrives at,37Ali Bey, Sultan of Egypt,46Al Moayyad, Arabic newspaper,321,337teaching the people to think,384Ambition, Egyptians regard it as folly,183"Amnesty" as interpreted by the French,240Anniversary of French Republic at Cairo,155Anti-Egyptian and Anti-Islamic party in Egypt,379Anti-English feeling of European colonists,306Arab and Egyptian character contrasted,41Arab Caliphate, Desire for,33Arabic language, Egyptians and the,132,384Press in Egypt,326Arab invasion, Effect of,28Arabi's revolt,389"Are they not our people?",232,237Armenians allied to European races,18and the Boer War,327Author, A famous Egyptian,180Author's aim,Preface,396criticisms of the French,271,272Azhar University defiled by the French, The,170Bacchanalian festival at Cairo, A,219Balloon at Cairo,174Battle of Embabeh, or the Pyramids,90Matarieh,225Shebriss,86the Nile,138Bedouins, Character of the,80plunder Egyptian fugitives,102Bekir Pacha, Governor of Cairo,48,62"Benevolences" in Egypt,113Berbereens, Character of,373Bey, Value of the title,49Bigotry of the Egyptians, Alleged,249Birket el Feel, quarter of Cairo,63,166Birthday of the Prophet at Cairo,140Bishop Horsley on the rights of the people,115Boer War, opinions in Egypt,327Bonaparte and the Egyptians,71,130,144at Alexandria,42,64character of,217claims to be inspired,197fails to learn the lesson of the revolt,170has a narrow escape,154leaves Egypt,219Luther greater than,178the "Great,",285"with his stockings half-down,",286yields to the opposition of the people,144Bonaparte's best deed for Egypt,187blundering,144-148,265dream of an Eastern Empire,109erroneous conception of the people,71failure to understand the Egyptians,144massacre of his prisoners,206policy of cake or cane,139proclamation,68offensive to Moslems,77professed friendship for Islam,69suppression of free speech,138triumphal entry into Cairo,218Boulac besieged by the French,229Fall of,232the port of Cairo,95Bribery in Egypt,40British and Moslems, Friendship between,PrefaceGovernment, Folly of,223seeEnglishBrotherhood of mankind,15Brutality of English laws in 1798,241Brutal sentence, A,262Cadi, or Chief of the Ulema,160Cairenes, Character of,10and French, Mutual satisfaction of,107a stiffnecked people,168attack the Cadi's house,160plundered by Bedouins,102resist the Mamaluk Beys,113their "baptism of fire,",169Cairo, a city of ineffable sadness,290Disorder in,129Improvements in,9in 1798 safer than London,128Lighting of streets in,131night in the old town,9Panic in,98in time of Mamaluks,97Reform of weights and measures in,181Cap of Liberty in Cairo, The,155Character of Egyptians,seeEgyptianChristian Missions,353protection of vice,269slaves in Africa,50Christians and European civilisation, Eastern,213better off than the Moslems,245defended by Moslems,62,227,245Christians in Cairo, Evil influence of,199Treatment of, by Moslems,137Two classes of,58join Moslems in opposing French reforms,158less oppressed than the Moslems,200of Cairo and the French,201Offensive conduct of,137,202responsible for the sufferings of the Moslems,247Christ's philosophy,192Church of Rome, Credulity in,178Civilisation and Empire, incompatible aims,273Eastern views of,213Egyptian view of,195in 1798,148The highest,380True,196won with blood and tears,215Cockade in Egypt, The French,67,142Gabarty on the wearing of the,144Commune in Paris,58Condition of Egyptians before the French invasion,27Copts, or native Christians of Egypt, The,59and Moslem Egyptians of same race,59,124Causes affecting the character of,124their superiority to Moslem Egyptians,124Corruption in Egypt, Official,304Corsairs of the Barbary coast,50Council of State at Cairo,seeDewanCredulity, Egyptian and European,177,178Creeds, Influence of,201Cromer,seeLord Cromer"Cromer's pets,"395Crusades, Traditions of the, in Egypt,49"Custom of the East, The," a false excuse,240Cutting of the Khalig, ceremony at Cairo,140,219Daily life of the Egyptians,385Dawn of the Modern period,34,271Demagogues in the East,252Denshawi incident, The,374Dervishes, or "Monks of Islam,"96Despotism, Mill on a benevolent,388Dewan, or Council of State,43,48,133Last official act of the Mamaluk,63of Cairo suspended and reformed,157reformed a second time,197revived by General Menou,264Discipline, glorious and inglorious,206Discontent in Cairo under the French,135Dress, The healthiest, in the East,214Dupuy, Death of General,165East, The glamour of the,20Eastern Christians and European civilisation,214ideas of justice and mercy,253Eastern peoples chiefly divided by their religions,256Easterns are led, not driven,252Education in Egypt,350Eed, The, or day of sacrifice,207Egypt and the Powers,391Condition of, in 1798,46Foreign rulers of,23in 1906 and 1882, compared,389"for the Egyptians,",398Egyptian, A brilliant, scholar,180and Arab character contrasted,41adaptability,151a mystery to Europeans,17anxious to please and easily pleased,386credulity,177desire for peaceful progress,383"Fatalism,",112,124faults and failings,Prefacefond of novelties,175gratitude,242,334greatly misunderstood,Prefacehero-worship,189incapacity for self-government,111,396impulsiveness,83"Ingratitude,",185,263lack of initiative,363lax in their religion,163,249love of freedom,123,344loyalty,263,345to the Sultan and Islam,30,32,72misunderstood by Bonaparte,144national character not yet formed,312naturally honest,85not always tactless,104not bigoted,151reticence,301self-control,372,380undergoing change,382wrongly accused,243The, as an individual,385The, historian Gabarty,seeGabartyhistory, The most interesting century in,13Six great landmarks of,25Three periods of,22idea of civilisation,195idea of freedom and liberty,123,145,344ignorance of other countries,34indifference to the invasion of Syria,205standard of good and evil,212reasoning illustrated,39mosques monuments of shame, not of glory,23newspapers,376,382opinion of England's duty in Egypt,359of Bonaparte's government,184of Bonaparte's proclamation,69of the French,195of English, how formed,298,300Egyptians accustomed to free speech,139allied to Asiatic peoples,18Causes affecting the character of,117,378and French after the revolt,171and the Boer War,327and their rulers,73ask for Mamaluks as officials,133begin to have a political existence,28compared with the Anglo-Saxons,115to Scotch Sabbatarians,353Condition of, compared with that of French and English,116their grievances under the Mamaluks,145in 1798 better than that of the English,115under the Arabs,30Mamaluks,73,145Pharaohs,27Turks,31oppressed by Christians,247difficulty in understanding Englishmen,361distrustful of the English,12divided in opinion,382five classes of,385Tourists' opinions of,18uninfluenced by those of former times, Modern,25Empire and civilisation incompatible aims,273Links between ancient and modern,22Philosophy of the,192their attitude towards the French,84their conversion to Islam,28their sufferings due to Christians,247tortured by the French,130England's best gift to Egypt,334duty to Egypt,393strength in the East,302Englishand French rivalry, Effect of,35and Islam,381approaching Islamic ideals,196aristocracy, Decay of the,349cads, Evil influence of,347Empire-makers,347Government in 1798,273must remain in Egypt,392occupation, Newspaper attacks on,383self-sufficiency,151taxpayer's most costly luxury,350Unpopularity of the,347Englishmen imperfectly understood by Egyptians,361in Egypt in 179,34Europe and the East,274of to-day and of a century ago,241European and Egyptian cannot coalesce,186and Oriental thought,17civilisation in the East, Hall-mark of,270colonists in Egypt, Anti-English feeling of,306credulity,177fear of epidemics,208may study Orientals, How a,19ignorance of life in the East,150kindness and Egyptian gratitude,242misconception of Egyptians,319soldier in 1798, The,108vice in Cairo,128Europeans in Egypt, Influence of,318Europeans, slaves to Moslem masters,50"Even-handed Justice,"258Evil-doing cannot be justified,240Fachoda, Capt. Marchand at,294"Faithless French, The," a Turkish phrase,152Fanaticism of Egyptians, Alleged,30,249at Cairo and in Europe,57due to spiritual leaders of the peoples,61taught to Moslems by Christian missionaries,354"Fatalism" in Egypt,112,124Franks or European Christians in Egypt, The,59"Fraternity" in Egypt,199French and Cairenes, mutual satisfaction of,107in Egypt,35and Mamaluk rule compared,275and the Egyptian Christians, The,201Arrival of the,42Attitude of the people towards the,70Author's criticisms of,271Condition of, compared with that of the Egyptians,116destroy public buildings in Cairo,157distrusted by the people,78enter Cairo,107experts with Bonaparte,134invasion, the starting-point of the modern period,24Influence of the,36leave Egypt,267occupation, cause of its failure,273Effect of, upon trade,203Evil effects of,267Good effects of,270"Most important event" during,209opinion of Egyptians,71relations with Ireland and India,37welcomed by the Christians of Cairo,136Frenchmen in Egypt in 1798,34of high ideals,270Friendship between British and Moslems,Preface,380Gabarty, Egyptian historian,96,181censures the Mahomedans,96,221character of his history,209personal character,179,181his criticisms of Moslems and Christians,96,99,221,246origin and family,180on the wearing of the cockade,144praises the French,175Gates of the Harahs in Cairo,135Gordon riots in London,57Governing class in Egypt extinct,389Government by force,251of Egypt in 1798,42Governor of Cairo,45Greeks and the English occupation,306Haeckel and the Monists,15Hall-mark of European civilisation,270"Handyman, The," training of,364Hero of civilisation, The great,217Hero-worship of the Egyptians,189Hindoos and their gods,189Historians, Admissions of,248Mistakes of the,213,243of Egypt,268perplexed by Mahomed Ali,284by the Copts,124History, Character of true,15Most interesting century in Egyptian,13of Egypt, Early,12Two kinds of,27Unity of,13Honest man, The,270men and rogues,85Horsley on the rights of the people, Bishop,115Humanity, The lowest type of,193Ibrahim Bey, Governor of Cairo,46,54,93protects the Christians,63Ideals, English and Oriental,258Influence of,196,201Indian peoples incapable of self-government,112Moslems' loyalty to the Sultan,32sepoys in Egypt,267Influence of French occupation upon the English occupation,267"Ingratitude" of the Egyptians,185,272Inventor, A famous Egyptian,180Irish rebels, Pursuit of,57Islam, Despotism in,78favourable to freedom,30Fidelity of Egyptians to,30,33inconsistent with radicalism,379