Description of Alexandria - Hotels - Houses - Streets - Frank
Shops - Cafes - Equipages - Arrangements for the Journey to
Suez - Pompey's Pillar - Turkish
And Arab Burial-grounds - Preparations
for the Journey to Cairo - Embarkation on the Canal - Bad accommodation
in the Boat - Banks of the Canal - Varieties of Costume in
Egypt - Collision during the night - Atfee - Its wretched appearance - The
Pasha - Exchange of Boats - Disappointment at the Nile - Scarcity of
Trees - Manners of the Boatmen - Aspect of the Villages - The Marquess
of Waterford - The Mughreebee Magician - First sight of the
Pyramids - Arrival at Boulak, the Port of Cairo
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CHAPTER V.
CAIRO.
Arrival at Boulak - Description of the place - Moolid, or Religious
Fair - Surprise of the People - The Hotel at Cairo - Description of
the City - The Citadel - View from thence - The City - The
Shops - The Streets - The interior of the Pasha's
Palace - Pictures - Furniture - Military Band - Affray between a Man and
Woman - Indifference of the Police to Street Broils - Natives beaten
by Englishmen - Visit to an English Antiquary - By-ways of
the City - Interior of the Houses - Nubian
Slave-market - Gypsies - Preparation for Departure to Suez - Mode of
driving in the Streets of Cairo - Leave the City - The Changes in
travelling in Egypt - Attractions of Cairo
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CHAPTER VI.
THE DESERT.
Equipage for crossing the Desert - Donkey-chairs - Sense of calmness and
tranquillity on entering the Desert - Nothing dismal in its
aspect - The Travellers' Bungalow - Inconvenient construction of these
buildings - Kafila of the Governor of Jiddah and his Lady - Their
Equipage - Bedouins - Impositions practised on Travellers - Desert
Travelling not disagreeable - Report of the sailing of the
Steamer - Frequency of false reports - Ease with which an infant of
the party bore the journey - A wheeled carriage crossing the
Desert - Parties of Passengers from Suez encountered - One of Mr. Hill's
tilted Caravans - Difficulty of procuring water at the Travellers'
Bungalow - A night in the Desert - Magnificent sunrise - First sight
of the Red Sea and the Town of Suez - Miserable appearance of the
latter - Engagement of a Passage to Bombay
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CHAPTER VII.
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