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| Authenticity of these Memoirs | |
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| Preface | |
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| Family History | |
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| The Palace of Bet il Mtoni | |
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| The Bath-houses | |
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| Equestrian and Other Amusements-Princess Salamah's Father | |
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| Purchase of her Mother | |
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| Seyyid Sa�d's Principal and Secondary Wives | |
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| His Children | |
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| The Benjile | |
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| A Question of Discipline | |
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| Brother Majid Reaches his Majority | |
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| The Authoress's First Change of Residence | |
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| Bet il Watoro | |
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| Mahometan Belief in Foreordination | |
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| Parting Gifts | |
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| A Little Journey by State Cutter | |
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| Bet il Watoro | |
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| Arabian House Furniture and Decoration | |
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| Homesickness | |
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| Majid's Fighting-cocks | |
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| Amazonian Accomplishments | |
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| Oral Messages and Written | |
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| Chaduji the Haughty | |
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| Bet il Sahel | |
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| A Cross-grained Doorkeeper | |
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| Fascinations of Chole | |
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| The Veranda at Bet il Sahel | |
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| Life in the Courtyard | |
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| An Outdoor Butchery, Kitchen, and Larder | |
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| Love of Arabs for their Horses | |
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| Social Distinctions at Table | |
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| Why Bet il Sahel was Preferable to Bet il Mtoni | |
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| Race Hatred between Circassians and Abyssinians | |
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| Curshit | |
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| Enforced Tuition | |
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| Further Reminiscences of Childhood | |
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| Juvenile Tricks | |
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| Princess Salamah Climbs a Palm Tree | |
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| Majid's Seizure | |
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| A Family Quarrel which Ends in Divorce and Another Change of Abode for the Authoress | |
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| Extravagance of a Persian Sultana | |
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| More Divorce | |
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| Lessons in Caligraphy | |
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| National Singularities | |
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| The Vaunted Activity of Northern Peoples | |
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| Infant Dress | |
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| A Climate Favouring Ease | |
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| Prayer Five Times a Day | |
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| Intervening Pursuits | |
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| Chewing Betel | |
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| Going to Bed | |
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| Menu � la Zanzibar | |
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| Real Coffee | |
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| Ceremonies for Newly Born | |
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| Birth | |
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| Tight Bandaging | |
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| Shaving of the Head | |
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| Protection Against the Evil Eye | |
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| The Sitting Ceremony | |
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| Black Nurses and European | |
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| Hardiness of Oriental Children. | |
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| School | |
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| An Outdoor Classroom | |
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| Primitive Apparatus for Study | |
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| Play before Work | |
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| The Course of Instruction | |
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| Verbal Term Reports | |
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| Bribing the Schoolmarm | |
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| Defects of European Education | |
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| Civilisation and Religion | |
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| Female Fashions | |
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| Yearly Distribution of Clothing Materials | |
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| Simple Wants of Arabian Women | |
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| The Shale | |
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| The Rainy Season | |
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| The Sultan's Voyage to Oman | |
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| Persian Hostility in Asia | |
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| Provisioning the Ships | |
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| Relatives in Oman | |
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| Difficulties of Corresponding with Them | |
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| The Departure | |
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| Khaled Represents Seyyid Sa�d | |
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| Chole as Lady Superintendent | |
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| The Sultan's Strangely Prolonged Absence | |
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| Resort to Professional Seers | |
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| Soothsaying by Ventriloquism | |
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| Death of Seyyid Sa�d | |
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| Preparations for the Sultan's Return | |
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| Majid Sets Out to Meet Him | |
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| The Palace Surrounded by Order of Bargash | |
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| Who Wants to Usurp the Throne | |
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| Arrival of the Sultan's Dead Body | |
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| Majid's Return | |
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| Court Mourning | |
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| Majid's Irregular Succession | |
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| Severance of Zanzibar from Oman | |
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| Division of Seyyid Sa�d's Property | |
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| The Position of Woman in the East | |
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| Unhappy Western Matches | |
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| Seclusion from the Male Sex | |
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| Polygamy and Monogamy | |
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| Consideration Toward Wives | |
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| Redress Against Husbands | |
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| Domestic Prerogatives of the Women | |
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| Their Cheerfulness | |
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| Impenetrability of the Harem | |
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| Divorce Easy | |
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| Examples Disproving the "Inferiority" of Oriental Women. | |
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| Arabian Suitorship and Marriage | |
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| First Acquaintance | |
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| Generally by Hearsay | |
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| Girls Free to Reject Suitors | |
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| Formalities to be Observed by the Bride | |
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| Wedding Rites | |
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| Social Customs | |
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| Calls Made in the Evening | |
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| With Escort of Armed Slaves | |
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| Form of Reception by the Hostess | |
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| Etiquette Concerning Slippers | |
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| Conversation | |
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| Rigid Exclusion of Men from Assemblies of Women | |
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| Saying Good-bye | |
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| Royal Audiences | |
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| Order of Proceedings Thereat | |
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| Obligation to Attend Them | |
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| Visits Between Men | |
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| Mahometan Festivals | |
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| The Month of Ramadan | |
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| Daily Fasting | |
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| Nocturnal Fasting and Hospitality | |
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| Presentation of Holiday Gifts | |
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| Watching for the New Moon | |
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| General Rejoicings | |
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| The Banyans | |
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| Henna, and the Way to Use It | |
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| Public Prayers | |
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| The "Great Feast" | |
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| Pilgrimages to Mecca | |
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| A Tenth to the Poor | |
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| How Pauperism is Consequently a Necessary Institution | |
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| Medical Treatment | |
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| Cupping | |
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| Kneading | |
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| Swallowing Sentences from the Koran | |
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| Consultation of Foreign Physicians | |
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| Maltreatment by Domestic Remedies | |
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| Superstitious Practices | |
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| Possession by Spirits, Good and Evil | |
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| Exorcism and Propitiation | |
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| Female Doctors Needed in Zanzibar | |
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| Slavery | |
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| A Ruinous Release of Slaves | |
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| Idleness of the Negro | |
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| A Defence of Flogging | |
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| Slaves and Concubines Kept by Europeans in the East | |
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| To Abolish a Time | |
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| Honoured Custom, Go Slow | |
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| Moslem "Fanaticism" | |
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| History of a Dynastic Plot | |
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| The Authoress Loses her Mother | |
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| Family Dissensions | |
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| Princess Salamah's Equivocal Position | |
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| She Casts in her Lot with Bargash | |
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| Who Aspires to the Crown and Forms a Conspiracy to Dethrone Majid | |
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| Bargash's House Surrounded | |
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| His Abduction in Woman's Garb | |
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| Defeat of his Partisans | |
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| His Return | |
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| And Rejection of Majid's Peaceful Overtures | |
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| The Pretender's House Fired On by British Marines | |
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| Submission and Banishment of Bargash | |
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| Term of Rural Residence | |
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| Complicated Relations with an Invisible Steward | |
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| Life on the Plantation of Kisimbani | |
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| And of Bububu | |
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| Sale of Bububu | |
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| In Town Again | |
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| Reconciliation with Majid | |
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| Quarrel with Chole | |
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| Oriental Hatred of Dissemblance | |
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| Great Fidelity in Friendship | |
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| Elopement from Zanzibar | |
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| Acquaintance with Herr Ruete | |
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| The Escape | |
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| Marriage at Aden | |
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| Brief. Happiness in Hamburg | |
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| Subsequent German Days | |
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| English Diplomacy | |
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| Journey to London | |
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| Interview with Sir Bartle Frere | |
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| The Choice Offered | |
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| Avoidance of Meeting Bargash | |
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| Return to Germany | |
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| Disappointment | |
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| Duplicity of the British Government | |
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| Its Motive | |
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| Visit to the Old Home | |
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| Embarkation | |
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| Alexandria | |
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| Egyptian Dislike of the English | |
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| Travel in the Suez Canal | |
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| The Red Hot Sea | |
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| Arrival | |
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| Welcome by the Populace | |
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| Causing Displeasure to Seyyid Bargash | |
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| His Official Factotum an Ex-Lampcleaner | |
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| Dilapidation and Decay | |
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| Bargash's Frightful Cruelty | |
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| The Authoress's Claims Unsettled | |
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| British Influence Over the Sultan | |
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| Conclusion | |