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18 LECTURE ON EGYPT.
Chephren, and are variously calculated at between
4,000 and 6,300 years old, while the wooden statue is
little inferior in point of age.
visitors. Cairo has the Greatest number of visitors during
the months of December, January, and February,
and very various are their tastes and amusements.
One section, and a large one, lounge on the steps of
Shepheard's Hotel and bask in the sun, languidly amused
by conjurors, snake-charmers, and the ever-changing
street scenes of camels, donkey-boys, veiled ladies, and
vendors of antiquities In the evening they visit the
places of amusement which abound in Cairo.
Another section are diligent in visiting mosques,
Courts of law and police, Coptic churches, Coptic
weddings, tombs, Dervishes, Miss Whately's and other
schools, museums, native coffee-shops, studying Arabic,
and encouraging brain-fever by attempting to decipher
hieroglyphic writing.
Others again occupy themselves with observing the
peculiarities of Egyptian habits—clapping hands instead
of ringing bells ; black men chamber-maids instead of
white women; the occupation of certain streets by
the same dogs, and their resistance to stranger dogs
invading their district; the kites soaring and circling
over the citadel mosque, now almost hidden in the
blue sky, and the next moment pouncing on a butcher-
boy's tray, and flying off with his meat. People of this
class always affect to be shocked with native houses
and native clothing, and pity the poor Egyptians
Chephren, and are variously calculated at between
4,000 and 6,300 years old, while the wooden statue is
little inferior in point of age.
visitors. Cairo has the Greatest number of visitors during
the months of December, January, and February,
and very various are their tastes and amusements.
One section, and a large one, lounge on the steps of
Shepheard's Hotel and bask in the sun, languidly amused
by conjurors, snake-charmers, and the ever-changing
street scenes of camels, donkey-boys, veiled ladies, and
vendors of antiquities In the evening they visit the
places of amusement which abound in Cairo.
Another section are diligent in visiting mosques,
Courts of law and police, Coptic churches, Coptic
weddings, tombs, Dervishes, Miss Whately's and other
schools, museums, native coffee-shops, studying Arabic,
and encouraging brain-fever by attempting to decipher
hieroglyphic writing.
Others again occupy themselves with observing the
peculiarities of Egyptian habits—clapping hands instead
of ringing bells ; black men chamber-maids instead of
white women; the occupation of certain streets by
the same dogs, and their resistance to stranger dogs
invading their district; the kites soaring and circling
over the citadel mosque, now almost hidden in the
blue sky, and the next moment pouncing on a butcher-
boy's tray, and flying off with his meat. People of this
class always affect to be shocked with native houses
and native clothing, and pity the poor Egyptians