. The redemption of Egypt. Gezireh race-course, or the Sports Club. The same institutions, giving thesame opportunities for out-of-door exercise, exist in every Anglo-Indian centre, at Singapore, at Hong-Kong, and on a larger andmore democratic scale in South Africa, Australia, and NewZealand. But what is noticeable at Cairo is the comparativedisplay of Anglo-Saxon characteristics which is made at Gezu-eh,when we notice, as we cannot fail to do, the unobtrusive mannerin which the Englishman otherwise lives. You may Avanderthrough the European quarter of Cairo, that is to say, the hand-some str
. The redemption of Egypt. Gezireh race-course, or the Sports Club. The same institutions, giving thesame opportunities for out-of-door exercise, exist in every Anglo-Indian centre, at Singapore, at Hong-Kong, and on a larger andmore democratic scale in South Africa, Australia, and NewZealand. But what is noticeable at Cairo is the comparativedisplay of Anglo-Saxon characteristics which is made at Gezu-eh,when we notice, as we cannot fail to do, the unobtrusive mannerin which the Englishman otherwise lives. You may Avanderthrough the European quarter of Cairo, that is to say, the hand-some streets and open spaces, sown with walled-in palaces, Avithoutdetecting any external sign of the Anglo-Saxon domination. Eventhe Agency shows only a monogram of the Queen upon its outergates, with a sentry-box without a sentry, to mark the residenceof the real ruler of Egypt. The great houses, the numberlesspalaces, many of them imposing enough with their high outer 1 The full name of the club is The Khedivial Sporting x:1 •J SOCIAL CAIRO 187 walls and arched gateways, round which groups of servants loungein picturesque Turkish costume, belong to the Pashas, or to theKhedives brother, uncles, or cousins. The largest and the smartestof the new houses which are springing up, especially on the Kasr-ed-Dubbara estate, are being built for the native landowners andgrandees. The English officials are hidden away among the crowdof comfortable detached houses of moderate dimensions, in whichthe bulk of European Cairo resides. Among these houses, theresidences of the twenty or thirty Consuls or Consuls-General,who so pertinaciously safeguard the interests of their respectivenationalities, are alone distinguished by the coat of arms andthe sentry-box. If the visitor penetrates into the recesses of anyof the great Government departments, which are lodged for themost part in the discarded palaces of former Khedives, he willfind himself in a busy hive which to all appearance is Eg3ptia
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