Africa . Veryinteresting for the stranger are the jewellers shops, in whichthe richest choice of finger, ear, and nose rings of strangeoriental shapes are temptingly shown. The armourersplaces are also well worth seeing, with their splendid Turkishsabres, yatagans, and richly ornamented guns and crowd in the streets is still larger and farmore varied than in Alexandria, and the noise isalmost deafening. Water-carriers, chiefly very poor people,are very numerous, and take about their supply eitherin a goat-skin on their own backs, or lead their donkeyswith them, in every part of the
Africa . Veryinteresting for the stranger are the jewellers shops, in whichthe richest choice of finger, ear, and nose rings of strangeoriental shapes are temptingly shown. The armourersplaces are also well worth seeing, with their splendid Turkishsabres, yatagans, and richly ornamented guns and crowd in the streets is still larger and farmore varied than in Alexandria, and the noise isalmost deafening. Water-carriers, chiefly very poor people,are very numerous, and take about their supply eitherin a goat-skin on their own backs, or lead their donkeyswith them, in every part of the city. When one remem-bers that all the inhabitants of Cairo, 350,000 people,are provided with water from the Mle—for the wells onlygive a bad and saline water—the great number of thesecarriers is readily comprehended. The fellahs or peasantsbring their products to market in baskets which theycarry on their heads ; now and then they also make useof a donkey for this purpose, and the animal carries v~^. FRUIT-SELLER OF CAIRO. To face page 212. EGYPT. 213 not only the goods, but also their owner; or the drivermay be seen running alongside holding on to the pack-saddle so as to be dragged along by the animal. Eiderson splendid horses are often met, and these, with theirpicturesque oriental equipage, give a fine effect to the scene.
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