Herr P.very willingly undertook to do so; and after the lapse of an hour, the dragoman had already been found, and two asses stood before the door to carry me and my servant through the whole town.
The animated bustle and hum of business in the streets of Cairo is very great.

I can even say that in the most populous cities of Italy I never saw any thing I could compare to it; and certainly this is a bold assertion.
Many of the streets are so narrow, that when loaded camels meet, one party must always be led into a by-street until the other has passed.

In these narrow lanes I continually encountered crowds of passengers, so that I really felt quite anxious, and wondered how I should find my way through.

People mounted on horses and donkeys tower above the moving mass; but the asses themselves appear like pigmies beside the high, lofty-looking camels, which do not lose their proud demeanour even under their heavy burdens.

Men often slip by under the heads of the camels.