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CAIRO.
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we should thus gain—Jaffa being but one long
day's journey and Beyroot eight days' journey
from Jerusalem. For these reasons, our stay at
Cairo was very short, most of the time allotted us
being employed in making a visit to the Pyra-
mids.
Cairo is in every respect a more thoroughly
Mohammedan city than Alexandria. This is shown
in the dress of the inhabitants; in the few and
rare traces of European architecture and civiliza-
tion ; in the number of camels, donkeys, and fleas ;
and lastly, and most conspicuously, in the narrow-
ness, crookedness, and filth of the streets. Eut in
compensation for these disadvantages, it contains
some of the finest specimens of Mohammedan archi-
tecture, and presents the traveller with probably
the best and most interesting exhibition of Arab
customs, manners, and character, to be found in
the world.
The next day after our arrival, we made a some-
what hasty excursion through and about the city ;
visiting the bazaar, the new mosque of Mohammed
Alec, the famous Well of Joseph, and the citadel,
where Mohammed Alee collected the Memlooks un-
der pretence of giving them a banquet, and then
caused them to be treacherously massacred, March,
53
we should thus gain—Jaffa being but one long
day's journey and Beyroot eight days' journey
from Jerusalem. For these reasons, our stay at
Cairo was very short, most of the time allotted us
being employed in making a visit to the Pyra-
mids.
Cairo is in every respect a more thoroughly
Mohammedan city than Alexandria. This is shown
in the dress of the inhabitants; in the few and
rare traces of European architecture and civiliza-
tion ; in the number of camels, donkeys, and fleas ;
and lastly, and most conspicuously, in the narrow-
ness, crookedness, and filth of the streets. Eut in
compensation for these disadvantages, it contains
some of the finest specimens of Mohammedan archi-
tecture, and presents the traveller with probably
the best and most interesting exhibition of Arab
customs, manners, and character, to be found in
the world.
The next day after our arrival, we made a some-
what hasty excursion through and about the city ;
visiting the bazaar, the new mosque of Mohammed
Alec, the famous Well of Joseph, and the citadel,
where Mohammed Alee collected the Memlooks un-
der pretence of giving them a banquet, and then
caused them to be treacherously massacred, March,