Chapter 4

ALEXANDRIA TO BOULAK.

Description of Alexandria--Hotels--Houses--Streets--Frank Shops--Cafés--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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