The innocents abroad; . describe the greatmosque of Mehemet Ali, whose entire inner walls are built ofpolished and glistening alabaster ; I shall not tell how the lit-tle birds have built their nests in the globes of the great chan-deliers that hang in the mosque, and how they whole place with theirmusic and are not afraidof any body because theiraudacity is pardoned, theirrights are respected, andnobody is allowed to inter-fere with them, eventhough the mosque be thusdoomed to go unlighted; Icertainly shall not tell thehackneyed story of themassacre of the Mame-lukes, because I am gl
The innocents abroad; . describe the greatmosque of Mehemet Ali, whose entire inner walls are built ofpolished and glistening alabaster ; I shall not tell how the lit-tle birds have built their nests in the globes of the great chan-deliers that hang in the mosque, and how they whole place with theirmusic and are not afraidof any body because theiraudacity is pardoned, theirrights are respected, andnobody is allowed to inter-fere with them, eventhough the mosque be thusdoomed to go unlighted; Icertainly shall not tell thehackneyed story of themassacre of the Mame-lukes, because I am gladthe lawless rascals weremassacred, and I do notwish to get up any sympa-thy in their behalf; I shallnot tell how that one soli-tary Mameluke jumped his horse a hundred feet down fromthe battlements of the citadel and escaped, because I donot think much of that—I could have done it myself; I shallnot tell of Josephs well which he dug in the solid rock of thecitadel hill and which is still as good as new, nor how the. THE MAMELUKES LEAP.
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