On the Desert - Recent Events in Egypt

by Henry Martyn Field

 

ON THE DESERT:

 

WITH A BRIEF REVIEW OF

 

RECENT EVENTS IN EGYPT.

 

BY HENRY M. FIELD, D.D.

AUTHOR OF "FROM THE LAKES OF KILLARNEY TO THE GOLDEN HORN."
AND "FROM EGYPT TO JAPAN."

 

SECOND EDITION.

 

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1888

 

 

CONTENTS

I.	Egypt in the Spring of 1882	1
II.	England in Egypt	22
III.	The First Day on the Desert	38
IV.	Marah, Elim and the Camp by the Red Sea	55
V.	Our Bedaween Companions	65
VI.	A Sabbath in the Wilderness	78
VII.	The Ascent of Mount Serbal	87
VIII.	Coming to the Foot of Sinai	98
IX.	On the Top of Mount Sinai	109
X.	The Hebrew Commonwealth founded on Religion	124
XI.	Theocracy and Democracy	138
XII.	The Criminal Law—was it written in Blood?	156
XIII.	Life in a Convent	172
XIV.	Leaving Sinai. Passing Through the Mountains	188
XV.	The Great and Terrible Wilderness	203
XVI.	Nukhl—on the Route of Pilgrims to Mecca	218
XVII.	The Old Sheikh. Illness on the Desert	232
XVIII.	Perils Among Robbers	248
XIX.	Returning to Civilization	262
XX.	The Moslems of Gaza—A Brave Missionary	273
XXI.	Through the Hill Country to Bethlehem	283
XXII.	Around the Place where Christ was Born	291
XXIII.	The Dead Sea and the Jordan. Jericho	306
XXIV.	Going up to Jerusalem	319