Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from On the Nile With a Camera
The orthography of ancient names and places is a vexed question, so I have adopted the forms most familiar to English eyes; and, though the spelling in most popular works is in such a chaotic condition as to allow considerable license in this direction, I have throughout endeavoured to be as consistent as possible.
With regard to Arab words I have given up the ordinary English renderings in despair, and adopted the accurate and uniform method familiar to most travellers from Baedeker's Guide-books to Egypt, save only in cases where an alteration of the usual spelling would appear pedantic. I may at once, therefore, tender my best thanks for much useful information to the author of these invaluable companions; though in questions of archaeology pure and simple I have, of course, followed implicitly such authorities as Wilkin son, Mariette, and Maspero.
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