. Cassell's history of the war in the Soudan. ing at the spacious windows, looking with interestand wonder—even those who had servedin India—on the streets below, wherebazaars abounded and gay lamps swungto and fro, and where innumerablevendors of street goods were throngingin white turban or red tarboosh—thesellers of lily-roots, of melons, of cresses,of henna wherewith to dye the nails of COMING TRIAL OF EGYPTIAN PBISONEBS. 21 yellow-skinned beauties, tlie aquaola,tinkling his dishes and quoting theKoran—the polyglot multitude of Egyp-tians, Greeks, Hungarians, Cypriots, andBritish soldiers
. Cassell's history of the war in the Soudan. ing at the spacious windows, looking with interestand wonder—even those who had servedin India—on the streets below, wherebazaars abounded and gay lamps swungto and fro, and where innumerablevendors of street goods were throngingin white turban or red tarboosh—thesellers of lily-roots, of melons, of cresses,of henna wherewith to dye the nails of COMING TRIAL OF EGYPTIAN PBISONEBS. 21 yellow-skinned beauties, tlie aquaola,tinkling his dishes and quoting theKoran—the polyglot multitude of Egyp-tians, Greeks, Hungarians, Cypriots, andBritish soldiers in red serges, clay-coloured karkee, or tartan kilts. In addi-tion to this, the lofty streets of latticedhouses, abounding in carved balconies The composition of the court-mar-tial by which the Egyptian culpritswere to be tried excited much comment,though there was a difficulty in gettingofficers of good position to serve ona tribunal to judge of alleged crimes,*of which almost the entire people ofEgypt were guilty, and which the na-. STTRGEON-GENEBAL HANBTJHT. and florid arcades, were in themselveseach a picture—the mosques, withdelicate domes and taper minarets,covered with exquisite tracery andarabesque; the houses of grandees andbeys, and the fortified mansions of theMamelukes of old, and now thoseof Cairene nobles, the architecture ofwhich recalled the glories of the Al-hambra of the Moors and a perpetualmemory of the Arabian Nights. tives fully endorsed; and one instancewas pointedly adduced—that of OsmanBey, who had commanded the Artilleryunder Abd-el-Al, and was his comradeand friend, and who was now elected asa member, to sit in judgment on hwown compatriots! For the assistance given by theEoyal Navy in conveying the woundedfrom the field, Surgeon-General Han-bury expressed his gratitude to Captain 22 CASSELrS HISTORY OF THE WAR IN THE SOUDAN. Harry H. Rawson, Commander Moore,Lieutenant Grimstone, and BoatswainEichard Hurrill, of the Fleet; but nowthe gener
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