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The world of Cairo not only, but the entire East, passes by the New Hotel in a never-ending pano ramic procession. At the entrance, dragomen of all nationalities, with all colors of Eastern turbans, and all alike in brightly-braided jackets, offer their services to the new-comers in clamorous phrases of self-praise, or, when invention fails in this line, chatter and laugh among themselves like so many magpies. I am at my wit's end sometimes in a vain mental search for a country which will fit their curious clothes and unfamiliar contours. Greeks, Copts, Abyssinians with soft gazelle eyes, Nubians and Algerians dressed in short or long garments with bare or draped arms, propose their services as guides, dragomen, or conductors to the Cairene sights. A cavass of one of the different consulates, richly dressed in silver and gold embroidered stuffs, with flashing cimeter at his side, flourishes a long cane with a golden point, which he uses effectually while proudly pushing aside the throng of foot pas sengers who are constantly moving past the entrance to the hotel, where the servant awaits his master. In the throng a European dress is sometimes seen, but is drowned in the overflow Of brilliantly draped Orientals of all races. Merchants, with ostrich plumes and antiquities more or less authentic.
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- Publication date2020
- ISBN 10 1330149424
- ISBN 13 9781330149423
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages264
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