My Russian and Turkish journals . nothing interesting to tell of this. Monday, I2,th.—^We were to have gone to thePyramids to-day, but, although our lunch did start,we put off the expedition as the mail had to be gotready, and several of us felt a little seedy. Isuppose one has to be acclimatised, for at present allmy Constantinople energy seems to have vanished,and I am not up to doing much. Instead of this,we drove to the bazaars, and walked about there. Idont think they are as good as those in Constantinople,but they may be more curious, and the street leadingto them is like an uncovered ba
My Russian and Turkish journals . nothing interesting to tell of this. Monday, I2,th.—^We were to have gone to thePyramids to-day, but, although our lunch did start,we put off the expedition as the mail had to be gotready, and several of us felt a little seedy. Isuppose one has to be acclimatised, for at present allmy Constantinople energy seems to have vanished,and I am not up to doing much. Instead of this,we drove to the bazaars, and walked about there. Idont think they are as good as those in Constantinople,but they may be more curious, and the street leadingto them is like an uncovered bazaar; it is narrow, andthere are little shops on either side, small, squareplaces, in which the owner squats and carries on histrade, his eyes close down over the work he has in hand. Eyes —if he has two ; but it appears to me that itis much more fashionable here to have only one. We went also to see a real Egyptian house, ownedby the eldest descendant of the Prophet. He wasaway, but his son received us, a very intelligent t^. r^ CO , O) j: 1—1 en rt ?^3 < —, J ll w jn Q >> -r; /2 H 1—1 6C u r^ > p -> < -3 C3 wp a a 2 t/) Ph o o i882] AN INTERESTING HOUSE 241 boy, with charming manners. The house was mostinteresting. We entered first into a courtyard, witha very big tree growing close up to it. All thewindows have elaborate woodwork of a very prettypattern, and are lovely outside, but so successful inkeeping out the light that it was difficult to seethe ornamentation of the rooms from the rooms were at long distances from each other;one either passed through a garden or a court toget from one to the other. They were alike in shape—long squares, and there were square recesses on everyside, the floors of which were raised above that of themiddle, while divans went round the sides of bit of the place—floor, ceiling, walls—was orna-mented either with old tiles, or mosaic, or painting ;but, as I say, one could not see the det
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