When they came riding along, and the wind caught this garment and spread it out, they looked exactly like bats with outstretched wings.
Many of the Franks also dress in the Oriental style; the Fellahs go almost naked, and their women only wear a single blue garment.
Here, as throughout all the East, the rich people are always seen on horseback.

I was not so much pleased with the Egyptian as with the Syrian horses, for the former appeared to me less slim and gracefully built.
The population of Cairo is estimated at 200,000, and is a mixed one, consisting of Arabs, Mamelukes, Turks, Berbers, Negroes, Bedouins, Christians, Greeks, Jews, etc.

Thanks to the powerful arm of Mehemet Ali, they all live peacefully together.
Cairo contains 25,000 houses, which are as unsightly and irregular as the streets.

They are built of clay, unburnt bricks, and stones, and have little narrow entrances; the unsymmetrical windows are furnished with wooden shutters impenetrable to the eye.

The interiors are decorated like the houses in Damascus, but in a less costly style; neither is there such an abundance of fresh water at Cairo.
The Jews' quarter is the most hideous of all; the houses are dirty, and the streets so narrow that two persons can only just push by each other.