On the same day, the women were led into a large room, where a great female dragoon was waiting for us to put us through a similar ceremony.

Neither men nor women are, however, required to undress.
A few hours later we were summoned to the iron grating which separated us from the disinfected people.

On the farther side were seated several officers, to whom we paid the fee for our rooms and the keepers--the charge was very trifling.

My room, with attendance, only cost me three piastres per diem.

But how gladly would every traveller pay a higher price if he could only have a table and a few chairs in his apartment, and an attendant who understood what was said to him! So far as cleanliness is concerned, there is nothing to complain of; the rooms, the staircases and the courtyard were kept very neatly, and the latter was even profusely watered twice a day.