The west bank of the Suez Canal at Port Said, Egypt. The photographer is looking north-north-east from on board a boat showing the premises of C. Evans & Co., Grindlay & Co. Ltd., Lloyd Triestino, Deutsches Kohlen-Depot S.A. Egyptienne and the Casino Palace Hotel on the canal side. Advertisements for Beck's Beer, Pommery and Greno Champagne, Spend your holidays in the Swiss Alps and Dewar's Whisky are noticeable. The top of the lighthouse is to the left of centre and Ferdinand de Lesseps statue is in the right background. An unidentified single funnelled, four-masted passenger ship, seen from fine off her starboard bow, is at moorings on the right.