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302 TRAVELS IN UPPER
zareans and dogs, followed us. Some of the most
moderate contented themselves with pitying the
poor horses that carried us. " Poor creatures,"
cried they, " how much you are to be pitied ! Of
" what crime have you been guilty, to be thus
f* condemned to be ridden by infidels, zvre/ckes,
'* dogs?" It was amid these exclamations of con-
tempt and superstition, that we slowly reached the
castle of Cairo, where the pacha resided.
The audience passed in the same manner as au-
diences do in Turkey : that is to say, a few un-
meaning words were exchanged between the par-
ties, coffee, sherbet, and confectionary were pre-
sented us, perfumes were burned, and we withdrew
a few minutes after we had entered.
The populace assembled while we were in the
castle, to occupy it at our departure. Mr. Tott
had ordered the interpreters to throw medius among
the crowd by handfuls Dreadful confusion pre-
vailed around us. The clothes of the interpreters
were torn to pieces. The guards endeavoured in
vain to disperse the mob, by severe blows with their
sticks and sabres. It is not easy to form an idea of
the tumult. The sort of munificence with which
we threw about money answered no purpose,
unless to procure a shower of stones, which was
added to the invectives that assailed us on all sides.
Some
zareans and dogs, followed us. Some of the most
moderate contented themselves with pitying the
poor horses that carried us. " Poor creatures,"
cried they, " how much you are to be pitied ! Of
" what crime have you been guilty, to be thus
f* condemned to be ridden by infidels, zvre/ckes,
'* dogs?" It was amid these exclamations of con-
tempt and superstition, that we slowly reached the
castle of Cairo, where the pacha resided.
The audience passed in the same manner as au-
diences do in Turkey : that is to say, a few un-
meaning words were exchanged between the par-
ties, coffee, sherbet, and confectionary were pre-
sented us, perfumes were burned, and we withdrew
a few minutes after we had entered.
The populace assembled while we were in the
castle, to occupy it at our departure. Mr. Tott
had ordered the interpreters to throw medius among
the crowd by handfuls Dreadful confusion pre-
vailed around us. The clothes of the interpreters
were torn to pieces. The guards endeavoured in
vain to disperse the mob, by severe blows with their
sticks and sabres. It is not easy to form an idea of
the tumult. The sort of munificence with which
we threw about money answered no purpose,
unless to procure a shower of stones, which was
added to the invectives that assailed us on all sides.
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