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Title: Egypt painted and described
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Kelly, Robert Talbot, 1861-1934
Subjects: Egypt -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, A. & C. Black
Contributing Library: New York University, Institute of Fine Arts Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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nto the little brass cups he carries ; then the sussi,whose terra-cotta pot contains liquorice-water, or a drinkmade from prune-juice ; and lastly the sherbutli, orseller of lemonade and sherbet. The latter is really afine picturesque figure, partially enveloped in a brightred apron and carrying in a sling a huge glass bottle, thespout of silvered copper being surmounted by a cradlecontaining a large piece of ice. The greenish lemonade,in which float half lemons, seen through the light-coloured glass looks very refreshing ; and, with the eyeof an artist, it is his custom to have his drinking-bowlsof china coloured with bright blue. Here then are the grades of water-carriers, and itwould be as well to distinguish between them, if youwould avoid the mistake of an old gentleman who,hot and tired with bazaaring, called a sussi andmade him understand by signs that he wanted thecontents of his jar poured over his head. After somehesitation the sussi did so, deluging him with the i8 A BAZAAR
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, Cairo sticky decoction, and necessitating the subsequent ap-plication of more than one skinful of water ere theold gentlemans locks were restored to a presentablecondition. You will also notice the bread-sellers—men andwomen who, with basket or barrow, hawk their flatloaves of unleavened bread about the street, andanother superior grade carrying a basket with sticksrising from its brim, upon which are threaded littlecircular cakes of sweetened bread ; while dates, eggs,vegetables, sugar-cane, and other edibles are always tobe bought in the streets. Another curious street trade is that of the incense-burner, who with brass brazier swinging fumigatesyour shop or clothing for the fraction of a penny ; andit must be confessed that some corners into which youwill penetrate are so evil-smelling as to render his goodoffices very desirable. Wherein the smell originates it is hard to say, butthere is a peculiar odour, common to all Eastern towns,whose quiet intensity pervades everything, a

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