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LECTURE ON EGYPT.
most unmercifully. He made rather a large bet with
a Captain Butler, who had brought over a mare from
Malta, rode her himself, and beat the Khedive's best
horse and best jockey. The great Pharaoh was evi-
dently not free from human susceptibilities, for he
showed unmistakable signs of annoyance when he lost
the race and the bet. On this occasion I was intro-
duced by the Khedive to M. de Lesseps, of whom I
shall have to speak again in connection with the Suez
Canal.
Cairo is built oh the site of the ancient Egyptian
city of Latopolis, and was founded by the Arabs about
970 a.d. It now consists of two distinct towns, one
native in the old Arabian Saracenic style of architec-
ture, with projections and narrow wooden gratings,
and the other with well-paved, gas-lit streets, and Eu-
ropean (chiefly Italian) architecture. A century and a
half ago Cairo was visited by a terrible earthquake
which cost forty thousand people their lives.
In the bazaars and shops the representatives of
nearly every country in the East sit cross-legged, pla-
cidly smoking, and reading their Koran, and though
immediately courteous in offering the visitor coffee,
they affect to be indifferent and even bored when made
to understand that business is desired. They are,
nevertheless, shrewd hands at a bargain, and novices
will almost certainly get inferior goods, and pay three
times the proper price even for these, unless protected
by their dragoman.
Veiled women of all classes crowd and jostle in the
most unmercifully. He made rather a large bet with
a Captain Butler, who had brought over a mare from
Malta, rode her himself, and beat the Khedive's best
horse and best jockey. The great Pharaoh was evi-
dently not free from human susceptibilities, for he
showed unmistakable signs of annoyance when he lost
the race and the bet. On this occasion I was intro-
duced by the Khedive to M. de Lesseps, of whom I
shall have to speak again in connection with the Suez
Canal.
Cairo is built oh the site of the ancient Egyptian
city of Latopolis, and was founded by the Arabs about
970 a.d. It now consists of two distinct towns, one
native in the old Arabian Saracenic style of architec-
ture, with projections and narrow wooden gratings,
and the other with well-paved, gas-lit streets, and Eu-
ropean (chiefly Italian) architecture. A century and a
half ago Cairo was visited by a terrible earthquake
which cost forty thousand people their lives.
In the bazaars and shops the representatives of
nearly every country in the East sit cross-legged, pla-
cidly smoking, and reading their Koran, and though
immediately courteous in offering the visitor coffee,
they affect to be indifferent and even bored when made
to understand that business is desired. They are,
nevertheless, shrewd hands at a bargain, and novices
will almost certainly get inferior goods, and pay three
times the proper price even for these, unless protected
by their dragoman.
Veiled women of all classes crowd and jostle in the