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blinding dust. In these quarters of the old town the inhabitants themselves 

 present as great a diversity of types as do their quaint and rickety dwellings. 

 Egyptians and Nubians, Arabs and Negroes, jostle each other in the narrow lanes, 

 selling their wares, crowding about the hucksters' shops, or collecting in picturesque 



Fig. 125.— MUSHARABIEH, WITH ScKEE.V IN" FrONT TO CONCEAL THE InMATES FROM THEIR 



Neighbours. 



groups round about some noted story-teller. But the most shifting scenes of this 

 strange panorama, the most varied types and costumes, are to be seen chiefly in the 

 Muski and other streets in the neighbourhood of the bazaar, where the direct traffic 

 is carried on between the natives and Europeans. Here veiled women, Mussulmans 

 or Copts, glide rather than walk silently by, moving heaps of clothes, with nothing 



