Photographic views of Egypt, past and present . e veil of richest lace, and shin-ing slippers, covered Math embroidery, peeping out from fulllaced pantalets, that droop over a saddle of soft, rich Tur-key carpets; the whole pile — Turkey carpets, Indian sUkballoon, Persian lace. Cashmere scarf, Ophir goggles, andMorocco slippers — preceded and followed by a train ofmeek attendants, in fancy turbans and glossy beards, pre-figuring the inauguration of Womens Rights, in Bloomercostume, enthroned over universal donhey-dom. Now youbegin to see the East. But jog along, straining your neckto catch a
Photographic views of Egypt, past and present . e veil of richest lace, and shin-ing slippers, covered Math embroidery, peeping out from fulllaced pantalets, that droop over a saddle of soft, rich Tur-key carpets; the whole pile — Turkey carpets, Indian sUkballoon, Persian lace. Cashmere scarf, Ophir goggles, andMorocco slippers — preceded and followed by a train ofmeek attendants, in fancy turbans and glossy beards, pre-figuring the inauguration of Womens Rights, in Bloomercostume, enthroned over universal donhey-dom. Now youbegin to see the East. But jog along, straining your neckto catch a glimpse of the blue streak of sky, up, up, throughthe crevice where the overhanging balconies of lattice-workand palisaded roofs do not quite meet, and wonderingwhether within these walls are the marble courts and openfountains, and the double arches resting upon single col-umns, and the silk divans, and the windows and lanternsof stained glass, and the little black slaves in red andyellow slippers, gliding about with coffee in golden cups. CAIRO THE MAGNIFICENT. 77 upon silver platters, and with rose-scented latakia in nar-gilehs glistening with rubies — of all which you have readin story-books, but which you never expected to see, andcannot well contrive to see even now. So still jog on, yourdonkey picking his way among the pipe-bowls of recliningTurks at the gates and by the coffee-houses, till at lengthyou reach that grand repository of Oriental wealth andmagnificence — the Turkish bazaar. But no donkey mustamble here; and so, dismounting, you walk among piles ofsilk and cashmere, compressed into little closets, four feetby six, amber mouth-pieces, jewelled pipe-stems and bowls,golden coffee-cups, displayed in little cases of glass, per-fumes of Arabia, gums and spices of the Indies, all rangedbefore these diminutive stalls, where by day the owner sitscross-legged over his concentrated wealth, and by nightlocks it up with a wooden lock upon a wooden door, andknows t
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