Photographic views of Egypt, past and present . ccasionally you will find articles of beauty or of delicacy,but usually every alternate stall is for tobacco or bread, andinterspersed with these are coffee-shops occupying the spaceof two or three stalls. The bazaar at Negeeleh has about forty stalls; in frontof each, the proprietor squats upon his haunches, smokinghis pipe or sipping his coffee, and waiting for a or three dollars a day must be the extent of businessdone at one of these stalls on an average, even on a market-day ; — twenty-five cents profit would doubtless be consid
Photographic views of Egypt, past and present . ccasionally you will find articles of beauty or of delicacy,but usually every alternate stall is for tobacco or bread, andinterspersed with these are coffee-shops occupying the spaceof two or three stalls. The bazaar at Negeeleh has about forty stalls; in frontof each, the proprietor squats upon his haunches, smokinghis pipe or sipping his coffee, and waiting for a or three dollars a day must be the extent of businessdone at one of these stalls on an average, even on a market-day ; — twenty-five cents profit would doubtless be consid-ered a good days business, even in many of the largertowns. In front of the bazaar a few women veiled with theuniversal yashmak sat with little piles of bread or a fewbeans, eggs, or oranges for sale, rarely accosting any one,and hardly exposing their faces when addressed. In one quarter of the village is a little open squareplanted with palm-trees, and on one side of this a diminu-tive mosque with a slender minaret—a round tapering tower. BAZAAR AND HOUSES. 51 of brick stuccoed, surrounded with tiers of galleries, andterminating in a ball pointed with a three-pronged is no bell in the mosque-tower, but from these galleriesthe hour of prayer is called in a shrill waving voice thatresounds far over the plain.* In all Egypt I never hearda bell of any size or kind, except two little tinkling cow-bellsattached to Roman Catholic convents far up the Nile. Whata contrast to the perpetual din and clash in Malta, andeverywhere in Italy. The village I have described was an average the houses are the merest hovels with but oneroom, and a hole about two and a half feet high, thatanswers for a door. Yet even here the poor mans goat orsheep, or the donkey that earns a living for the family whilehe eats nothing himself, sleeps in the common the upper Nile the houses often have a mere roofingof twisted palm leaves, for in a climate where rain neve
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