Egypt and the Christian crusade . es to bepretty well balanced, 50,83 per cent, being malesand per cent, being females. Thus ISTaturewould scarcely permit the liberal proportionof four wives to every man, which the Koranallows. Classified according to places of residence, wefind the larger proportion of the population liv-ing in towns and villages; about two-sevenths intowns and villages with less than a thousandinhabitants; about three-sevenths in towns ofone to five thousand inhabitants, and the rest incities of more than five thousand this is said, there is also need
Egypt and the Christian crusade . es to bepretty well balanced, 50,83 per cent, being malesand per cent, being females. Thus ISTaturewould scarcely permit the liberal proportionof four wives to every man, which the Koranallows. Classified according to places of residence, wefind the larger proportion of the population liv-ing in towns and villages; about two-sevenths intowns and villages with less than a thousandinhabitants; about three-sevenths in towns ofone to five thousand inhabitants, and the rest incities of more than five thousand this is said, there is also need of empha-sizing the fact that the bulk of the population isengaged in agricultural pursuits. As in allOriental lands, however, farmers do not live inisolated homes upon their own farms, but intowns and villages within walking distance oftheir land. Cairo, the capital of Egypt, is indeed a largecity, the largest city in all Africa, with a popu-lation in 1897 of 570,062, equal to the com-bined populations (census of 1900) of Cleve-. .U/^imaitt OUTLINE MAP OF cultivable area and distribution of towns and cities. Underlinedfigures indicate/eddan^, 1,038 acre in a/edtian. Other figures represent citiesand towns. 10 The Country 11 land, Columbus and Dayton, or about the sizeof St. Louis. Alexandria, too, with its popula-tion of 319,766 (now certainly much larger)would rival Pittsburgh. But after these two,we have cities and towns of much smaller size.* The physical characteristics of Egypt are Physicalnoteworthy. ^The Nile Valley is the name isucs**which best suggests the land and its configura-tion. Imagine a valley 800 miles in length(from Cairo to Wadi Haifa) ; on an averageseven miles in width; the river in the middle;on either side a narrow strip of land, a barelimestone range of hills, and then the its northern extremity, let this valley openout into a rich, level district, the Delta, anequilateral triangle having each side 150 milesin length. This, in r
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