. An account of the manners and customs of the modern Egyptians, written in Egypt during the years 1833, -34, and -35, partly from notes made during a former visit to that country in the years 1825-28 . Sherbet-cups. the sherbet; but it is really not so much for use as fordisplay: the lips are seldom or scarcely touched withit. The interval between supper and the eshe, or timeof the night-prayers, is generally passed in smoking apipe and sipping a cup of coftiee. The enjoyment ofthe pipe may be interrupted by prayer, but is continuedafterwards ; and sometimes draughts or chess, or someother ga
. An account of the manners and customs of the modern Egyptians, written in Egypt during the years 1833, -34, and -35, partly from notes made during a former visit to that country in the years 1825-28 . Sherbet-cups. the sherbet; but it is really not so much for use as fordisplay: the lips are seldom or scarcely touched withit. The interval between supper and the eshe, or timeof the night-prayers, is generally passed in smoking apipe and sipping a cup of coftiee. The enjoyment ofthe pipe may be interrupted by prayer, but is continuedafterwards ; and sometimes draughts or chess, or someother game, or at least conversation, contributes to makethe time glide away more agreeably. The members ofan Egyptian familj in easy circumstances may pass theirtime very pleasantly; but they do so in a quiet men often pay evening visits to their friends, at orafter supper-time. They commonly use, on these andsimilar occasions, a foldhig lantern (fanoos), com-posed of waxed cloth strained over rings of wire, and atop and bottom of tinned copper. This kind of lanternis here represented, together with the common lamp(kandeel), and its usual receptacle of wood, whichserves to protect the flame fro
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