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Title: "Round the world." : Letters from Japan, China, India, and Egypt
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Fogg, Wm. Perry (William Perry), b. 1826
Subjects: Voyages around the world
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chibouk and sipping his coffee with trueMusselman coolness and gravity. Turninginto a by-street I slipped off theGeneral, and leaving him in charge ofthe boy, I found a standing place on the cor-ner to watch the passers by. As I wore thefez I attracted no special notice and a grimold Turk made room for me on the board infront of his shop. Here comes a woman outshopping, an occupation of which the fairsex are as fond of in Cairo as in New York,followed by a eunuch, black as Erebus, withan armful of parcels. She may be the ligh tof the harem, or her grand-mother, for allI can tell, for she is wrapped in the univer-sal white cotton winding sheet, and her faceis hidden behind a brown figured gauze veil.As she does not vouchsafe to shoot an eye-lash arrow from an eyebrow bow in this di-rection, I presume she is old and ugly. Nextcomes the very personification of the Father of the Faithful, with long whitebeard, a massive wrinkled face, and orientaldress, identical with that worn by the old
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STREET C6CEN C it* CAIKO 223 patriarch. He rides an easy going mule andseems absorbed in holy meditation. But atthe intersection of a narrow sidestreet, he comes in contact with amettled Aral), ridden l>y a young fellowat a sharp canter, and over goes old Abra-ham sprawling in the dust. This occurrences not so unusual as to cause any excitement,and it is only the stranger who laughs atthe catastrophe. He picks himself up, re-mounts his mule more astonished, per-haps, than his rider, and jogs on again, as ifnothing had happened. Near by is a barbershop where, if I understood Arabic, I couldhear the latest Caireen scandal, and in thecafe over the way a story-teller is surroundedby a croWd of eager listeners, as in the timesof the Caliphs and the Arabian nights. Forhalf an hour I watched the passing throng,and long for the pencil of a Hogarth or aNast to fix on paper the comical scenes. Then with Billy Boy and the Gen-eral, I take a quieter route toward theCitadel, which is located on

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