Life in the Soudan Adventures Amongst the Tribes, and Travels in Egypt, in 1881 and 1882
CHAPTER IV.
The Fertilizing Rivers of Egypt—Leave Alexandria—Incidents _en route_—Shepheard’s Hotel—Ancient and Modern Cairo—The Donkey-boys—Arab Patients—Dancing Dervishes—The House where Joseph, Mary, and the Infant Saviour Lived in Old Cairo—The Boulac Museum—The Petrified Forest—Mokattam Hills—Tombs of the Caliphs and Citadel—Cairo by Sunset 38-66