The centre is very uneven, and is filled with building materials, such as stones, wood, bricks, and beams.

The largest and handsomest house in this square is remarkable as having been inhabited by Napoleon during his residence at Cairo: it is now converted into a splendid hotel.
Herr Chamgion, the consul, was kind enough to send me a card of invitation for the theatre.

The building looks like a private house, and contains a gallery capable of accommodating three or four hundred people; this gallery is devoted to the use of the ladies.
The performers were all amateurs; they acted an Italian comedy in a very creditable manner.

The orchestra comprised only four musicians.

At the conclusion of the second act the consul's son, a boy of twelve years, played some variations on the violin very prettily.
The women, all natives of the Levant, were very elegantly dressed; they wore the European garb, white muslin dresses with their hair beautifully braided and ornamented with flowers.