The Nile boat or, glimpses of the land of Egypt / by . e Sook e Zullut, or arm bazaar, strikeshim with marvellous effect, towering to an amazing height, anddisplaying in its honeycomb tracery a noble breadth of design,with intricacy and richness of detail, which surpasses every otherin the city, fine as some of them are. It is quite impossible todo justice to such a specimen in a small drawing; and besides,the street is so narrow that only a side view can be obtained,yet the accompanying view will in some measure bear out theseremarks. A peculiar effect, which cannot be imitated in
The Nile boat or, glimpses of the land of Egypt / by . e Sook e Zullut, or arm bazaar, strikeshim with marvellous effect, towering to an amazing height, anddisplaying in its honeycomb tracery a noble breadth of design,with intricacy and richness of detail, which surpasses every otherin the city, fine as some of them are. It is quite impossible todo justice to such a specimen in a small drawing; and besides,the street is so narrow that only a side view can be obtained,yet the accompanying view will in some measure bear out theseremarks. A peculiar effect, which cannot be imitated in theengraving, is produced by the black and red marbles withwhich portions are inlaid. This view also exhibits a verygood specimen of the exterior of the houses of the old style,with their open galleries, and the elaborately fretted wood-work of their projecting windows and coverings, which producea very picturesque effect, with the cafe below, overshaded,as is commonly the case, by an awning. The gateway leads * See Wilkinson for further details of this A MARRIAGE PROCESSION. 65 into a Khan. This is the main thoroughfare in the city,vet by taking one of the cane seats of a small cafe, I was en-abled to complete my sketch without the slightest the foreground is to be seen one of the sights which thestranger is sure to encounter, however short his stay ; a zeffeh,or preliminary marriage procession. The bride, whose dressand person are entirely concealed by a shawl, accompanied byone or two of her relations, advances beneath a gay-colouredcanopy of silk, borne by four men; in front is a procession ofher female friends, married and unmarried, the latter beingdistinguished by their white wrappers from the black silk onesworn by the former. The whole is preceded by a party ofmusicians playing on hautboys and drums, and in the case ofthe lower orders, accompanied by a peculiar cry of the women,called zughareet, or rolling of the voice, expressive, withtriflin
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