Egypt : handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai . Street Scenes. CAIRO. 3. Route. 249. erant vendors of different kinds of sweetmeats, which to Europeanslook very uninviting. Thus, sdhlab is a thin jelly made of wheat-starch and sugar, the sellers of which shout,haldweh, ydsukkar bimismdr yd haldwehP(confection, 0 sugar, for a nail, 0 con-fection !). These vendors, who resemble therag and hone collectors of European towns,often barter their wares for nails or piecesof old iron, as their call indicates. Lastly,there are itinerant cooks, with
Egypt : handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai . Street Scenes. CAIRO. 3. Route. 249. erant vendors of different kinds of sweetmeats, which to Europeanslook very uninviting. Thus, sdhlab is a thin jelly made of wheat-starch and sugar, the sellers of which shout,haldweh, ydsukkar bimismdr yd haldwehP(confection, 0 sugar, for a nail, 0 con-fection !). These vendors, who resemble therag and hone collectors of European towns,often barter their wares for nails or piecesof old iron, as their call indicates. Lastly,there are itinerant cooks, with portable kit-chens, who sell small meat puddings, fish,and other comestibles, and whose customerseat their dinners sitting cross-legged bythe side of the street. This custom is no-ticed by the old German geographer Se-bastian Minister (d. 1552), who says thatthe city of Cairo is said to be five timesas large as Paris. There are few people, who,as with us, buy food to prepare at home; butwhen they are hungry they buy from thecooks, of whom the city contains nearly thirty thousand. The way in which fruit and vegetables are cried is par
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