An account of the manners and customs of the modern Egyptians, written in Egypt during the years 1833-1835 . se or bag made of shawl-stuff, or silk, or velvet, which is oftenaccompanied with a small pouch containing a flint and steel, andsome agaric tinder, and is usually crammed into his bosom. The pipe (which is called by many names, as shibuk, ood,etc.) is generally between four and live feet long; some pipes areshorter, and some are of greater length. The most common kindused in Egypt is made of a kind of wood called garmashak. ^The greater part of the stick (from the mouth-piece to about
An account of the manners and customs of the modern Egyptians, written in Egypt during the years 1833-1835 . se or bag made of shawl-stuff, or silk, or velvet, which is oftenaccompanied with a small pouch containing a flint and steel, andsome agaric tinder, and is usually crammed into his bosom. The pipe (which is called by many names, as shibuk, ood,etc.) is generally between four and live feet long; some pipes areshorter, and some are of greater length. The most common kindused in Egypt is made of a kind of wood called garmashak. ^The greater part of the stick (from the mouth-piece to about three-quarters of its length) is covered with silk, which is confined ateach extremity by gold thread, often intertwined with colouredsilks, or by a tube of gilt silver; and at the lower extremity of thecovering is a tassel of silk. The covering was originally designedto be moistened with water, in order to cool the pipe, and, con- • I believe it is maple DOMESTIC LIFE. 123 seqnently, the srnoke, by evaporation ; but this is only done whenthe pipe is old, or not handsome. Cherry-stick pipes, which are. never covered, are also used by many persons, particulnrly in thewinter. In summer the smoke is not so cool from the cherry-stickpipe as from the kind before mentioned. The bowl is of baked 124 THE MODERN EGYPTIANS. earlh, coloured red or brown.^ The mouth-piece is composed oftwo or more pieces of opaque, light-coloured amber, inter]oinedby ornaments of enamelled gold, agate, jasper, carnelion, or someother precious substance. It is the most costly part of the pipe ;the price of one of the kind most generally used by persons ofthe middle order is from about one to three pounds sterling. Awooden tube passes through it. This is often changed, as it soonbecomes foul from the oil of the tobacco. The pipe also requiresto be cleaned very often, which is done with tow, by means ofa long wire. Many poor men in Cairo gain their livelihood bygoing about to clean pipes. The tobacco smoked
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