CONTENTS
PART I. — The March Through Madyan Proper (North Midian).
Chapter I. — Preliminary—from Trieste to Midian.
Chapter II. — The Start—from El-muwaylah to the "White Mountain" and 'Aynúah.
Chapter III. — Breaking New Ground to Magháir Shu'ayb.
Chapter IV. — Notices of Precious Metals in Midian—the Papyri and the Mediæval Arab Geographers.
Chapter V.— Work At, and Excursions From, Magháir Shu'Ayb.
Chapter VI. — To Makná, and Our Work There—the Magáni or Maknáwis.
Chapter VII. — Cruise from Maknáto El-'Akabah.
NOTE ON THE SUPPLIES TO BE BOUGHT AT EL-'AKABAH.
Part II. — The March Through Central and Eastern Midian.
Chapter IX. — Work in and Around El-Muwaylah.
Chapter X. — Through East Midian to the Hismá.
"Gold shall be found, and found In a land that's not now known." MOTHER SHIPTON, A.D. 1448.
A few pages by way of "Forespeache."
The plain unvarnished tale of the travel in Midian, undertaken by the second Expedition, which, like the first, owes all to the liberality and the foresight of his Highness Ismail I., Khediv of Egypt, forms the subject of these volumes. During the four months between December 19, 1877, and April 20, 1878, the officers employed covered some 2500 miles by sea and land, of which 600, not including by-paths, were mapped and planned; and we brought back details of an old-new land which the civilized world had clean forgotten.
The public will now understand that one and the same subject has not given rise to two books. I have to acknowledge with gratitude the many able and