In one visit to an asylum, during which all conversation has to be carried on through the medium of a dragoman, it is not easy, however intelligent he may be, to gain all the facts which one desires bearing on the many questions which arise in reference to the insane in a land placed under such different conditions from our own, as is Egypt. Hence no further excuse is needed for the insufficiency of my observations on the Cairo Asylum, which I visited on Dec. 11, 1878.