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C H A R X. 
Of the VaUceSy Streets ^ and Bazars of Caire. 
HAving feen all the places that I have mentioned before, no more remains 
but to walk through the City, and fee, the lovely Mofques and fair Pala- 
ces i and if you could have any occalion to go into the Houfes of the Beys, there 
you would fee brave Appartments, large Halls, paved all with Marble, with 
Water-works,and Seelings,adorned with Gold and Azure. You would fee like- 
wife neat Gardens. As to the Frontifpieces of Houfes, there is not one that 
looks well, and (as I have faid already) the finefl: Houfes are but dirt witbfct. Locks and 
All their Locks and Keys are of wood, and they have none of iron, - no notror Keys of wood 
the City Gates, which may be all eafily opened without a Key. The Keys are ^^i'^^- 
bits of timber, with little pieces of wire, that life up other little pieces of 
wire which are in the Lock, and enter into certain little holes, out of which the 
ends of wire that are on the Key having thruft them, the Gate is open. But 
without the Key, a little foft pafte upon the end of one's finger, will do the 
job as well. 
There are fome fair Streets in Caire ; the Street of Baz.ar, or the Market, s^iar. 
is very long and broad, and the Baz,ar is held there on Mondays and Thurfdays. 
There is always fuch a prodigious croud of people in this ftreet, but efpecially 
on Market-days, that one can hardly go along. All forts of things are fold in 
this ftreet, and at the end of it there' is another fhort ftreet, butfomething 
broad, wherein the {hops on each lide are full of rich Goods ; this is called 
Han Kalil, that is to fay, the little Han. Then at the end of that Ihort ftreet, mn KM. 
there is a great Han, in which there is a large Piazza or Square, and very 
high Buildings. White Slaves are fold there, afwel Women and Girls, as Men Slaves fold in 
and Boys. A little farther there is another where are great numbers of ^ Market. 
Èîack Slaves, of both Sexes. There is a little ftreet near Han Kaltf, where 
on Market-days, that is to fay, Mondays 2Lnd Thurfdays, there are Slaves ftand- 
ing in ranks againft a wall, to be fold to them that have a mind to buy, and 
every body may look upon them, touch and feel them like Horfes, to fee if 
they have any faults. The Hofpital and Mofque of Mad People, is very near The Hofpitaî 
Uan Kalil , they are chained with heavy iron chains, and are led to the Mofque and Mofque 
at Prayer-time. This is one of the largelt Mofques in the City, as far as I of Mad Peo- 
could fee, going by the doors of it. The Hofpital is called Moreftan, and it P^^- 
ferves alfo for the fick Poor, who are well entertained and look'^ after in it. 
It feems worth one's curiofity too, to fee them make Garpetsj for a great 
many fine ones are made at Caire, and are called r«r^?V-TP<7r^ Carpets : Many Turhie-wotk 
People are employed in that work, among whom are feveral little Boys, who Carpets made 
do their bufinefs fo skilfully and oimbly, that one could hardly believe it ; atc«>e. 
their Loom ftands before them,*and in their left hand they have feveral ends 
of round bottoms of Woorftead of many colours, which they place in their 
feveral places ; in the right hand they hold a Knife, wherewith they cut the 
Woorfted, at every point they touch with the Knife. The Mafter comes to 
therfi now and then with a Pattern, and looking upon it, tells them what they 
are to do, as if he vv^ere reading in a Book ; nay, fafter too than he could read, 
laying. So many points of fuch a colour, and fo m.any of fuch another, and the 
like ; and they are as quick at their work, as he is in direfting them. 
