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Title: An account of the manners and customs of the modern Egyptians, written in Egypt during the years 1833-1835
Year: 1842 (1840s)
Authors: Lane, Edward William, 1801-1876
Subjects: Egypt -- Social life and customs Egypt -- History 19th century
Publisher: London, Ward, Lock and co.
Contributing Library: Kelly - University of Toronto
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one seat, calledmastabah, built against the back or side wall, for the porterand other servants. In the court is a well of slightly brackishwater, which filters through the soil from the Nile; and on itsmost shaded side are, commonly, two water-jars, which are daily re-plenished with water of the Nile, brought from the river in skins.^The principal apartments look into the court; and their exterior real size. No. 6 sliows the general proportions of the side of a projectingwindow. The portion A is, in most instances, of lattice-work similar toNo. I, and comprises about twelve rows of beads in the width : the portion Bis commonly either of the same kind, or like No. 2 or No. 3 ; and the smalllattice C, which is attached by hinges, is generally similar to No. 4. Commonly similar to No. i, or No. 5. Some large houses have two couits : the inner for the hareem ; and in thelatter, or both of these, there is usually a little enclosure of arched wood-workin which trees and flowers are raised.
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PRIVATE HOUSES. walls (those which are of brick) are plastered and whitewashed.There are several doors, which are entered from the court. Oneof these is called bab el-hareem (the door of the hareem) : itis the entrance of the stairs which lead to the apartmentsappropriated exclusively to the women and their master and hischildren.1 In general, there is, on the ground floor, an apar^nent called a mandarah, in which male visitors are received. This has awide wooden grated window, or two windows of this kind, nextthe court. A small part of the floor, extending from the door tothe opposite side of the room, is six or seven inches lower thanihe rest: this part is called the durkaah. ^ In a handsome

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