. Egypt painted and described . ntelligent donkey-boy andcomfortable animal, and explore for yourself withoutyour Baedeker or dragoman. Donkey - riding is healthy and exhilarating, andenables you to traverse the narrowest streets andlanes ; while your donkey-boy is quite a good fellowas a rule, and enlivens your ride by imparting allkinds of superfluous information, some of which maybe true, but all of it generally entertaining. I preferhim to the dragoman, also, because he usually knowsCairo better ; and once the principal mosques, etc., havebeen visited, the real pleasure of your stay consis
. Egypt painted and described . ntelligent donkey-boy andcomfortable animal, and explore for yourself withoutyour Baedeker or dragoman. Donkey - riding is healthy and exhilarating, andenables you to traverse the narrowest streets andlanes ; while your donkey-boy is quite a good fellowas a rule, and enlivens your ride by imparting allkinds of superfluous information, some of which maybe true, but all of it generally entertaining. I preferhim to the dragoman, also, because he usually knowsCairo better ; and once the principal mosques, etc., havebeen visited, the real pleasure of your stay consists inan unfettered exploration of the thousand odd cornersof the native quarters. Here every step reveals a new picture. Littleshops, protected from the sun by ragged awnings,display goods and commodities of the most varieddescription, among which, alas! you will notice agoodly proportion of Manchester prints. Here is a barbers shop with its fly-net drawnacross the door. The fruiterer arrays his brightly H A CAIRO SHOP ■«p^w. Cairo coloured stock upon still brighter papers, a vividcontrast to the adjoining charcoal-store or gloomyshoeing-forge. Gay saddlery, the glitter of the copper-smiths display, and the ever-lively native cafe, combinewith the life of the street in forming pictures calculatedto drive the artist to despair. How busy and howinteresting it all is! Notice that Ethiopian whosepurple-black skin gleams plum-like from below thesnowy turban, or this tall Nubian whose bronze-likefeatures shine in the sun from amidst their settingof ivory whites and blue. The closely veiled womenin sombre miliyeh or hubbara ^ give added valueto the gaudy clothing of the little girls ; and howdelightful is the gamins ragged gelabieh, ^ fadedinto a hundred variations of its original hue ! Through this motley hurrying throng the statelycamel, heavily laden with bercime, ^ silently pickshis way, and with warning cries the donkey-boy or carro * driver seeks to clear a path through thecr
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