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INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL.
ments, after having been respected by all preceding
tyrants for 3000 years, should now be demolished
for the illustrious object of yielding material for a
petty fortress, or scarcely more useful and impor-
tant bridge.*
Early in the morning I went into the bazars, and
fitted out Paul and myself with the necessary
dresses. Paul was soon equipped with the com-
mon Arab dress, the blue cotton shirt, tarbouch,
and Bedouin shoes. A native of Malta, he was
very probably of Arab descent in part, and his
dark complexion and long black beard would en-
able him readily to pass for one born under the sun
of Egypt. As for myself, I could not look the
swarthy Arab of the desert, and the dress of the
Turkish houaja or gentleman, with the necessary
arms and equipments, was very expensive; so I
provided myself with the unpretending and re-
spectable costume of a Cairo merchant ; a long
red silk gown, with a black abbas of camels' hair
over it, red tarbouch, with a green and yellow
striped handkerchief rolled round it as a turban,
white trousers, large red shoes over yellow slip-
pers, blue sash, sword, and a pair of large Turkish
pistols.
Having finished my purchases in the bazars, I
* On my return to Alexandria, I learned that Mr. Linant had
reported that it would be cheaper to get stone from the quarries.
After all, it is perhaps to be regretted that he had not gone on, as
the mystery that overhangs the pyramids will probably never be
removed until one of them is pulled down, and every stone re-
moved, under the direction of some friend of science and the arts.
INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL.
ments, after having been respected by all preceding
tyrants for 3000 years, should now be demolished
for the illustrious object of yielding material for a
petty fortress, or scarcely more useful and impor-
tant bridge.*
Early in the morning I went into the bazars, and
fitted out Paul and myself with the necessary
dresses. Paul was soon equipped with the com-
mon Arab dress, the blue cotton shirt, tarbouch,
and Bedouin shoes. A native of Malta, he was
very probably of Arab descent in part, and his
dark complexion and long black beard would en-
able him readily to pass for one born under the sun
of Egypt. As for myself, I could not look the
swarthy Arab of the desert, and the dress of the
Turkish houaja or gentleman, with the necessary
arms and equipments, was very expensive; so I
provided myself with the unpretending and re-
spectable costume of a Cairo merchant ; a long
red silk gown, with a black abbas of camels' hair
over it, red tarbouch, with a green and yellow
striped handkerchief rolled round it as a turban,
white trousers, large red shoes over yellow slip-
pers, blue sash, sword, and a pair of large Turkish
pistols.
Having finished my purchases in the bazars, I
* On my return to Alexandria, I learned that Mr. Linant had
reported that it would be cheaper to get stone from the quarries.
After all, it is perhaps to be regretted that he had not gone on, as
the mystery that overhangs the pyramids will probably never be
removed until one of them is pulled down, and every stone re-
moved, under the direction of some friend of science and the arts.