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whether the ingredients were of pork, or of any chap. 
other meat, we did not inquire. To describe , ^^' . 
the interior of the city would be only to repeat ^"terior of 
what has been often said of all Turkish towns ; 
with this difference, that there is not perhaps 
upon earth a more dirty metropolis. Every 
place is covered with dust; and its particles 
are so minute, that it rises into all the courts 
and chambers of the city. The streets are 
destitute of any kind of pavement : they appear 
like a series of narrow dusty lanes, between 
gloomy walls. Europeans were formerly com- 
pelled to walk or to ride upon asses, through 
these streets ; nor had the practice been wholly 
abandoned when we arrived : although some of 
our officers appeared occasionally on horseback, 
many of them ambled about, in their uniforms, 
upon the donkies let for hire by the j4rahs. 
Horses were not easily procured. To ride 
these, it was first necessary to buy them. And 
even when riding upon asses, if a favourable 
opportunity offered, when our military were not 
in sight, the attendants of the rich Turks, run- 
ning on foot before their horses to clear the 
way, made every Christian descend and walk, 
until the bearded grandee had passed. We Jugglers. 
noticed several jugglers, exhibiting their craft in 
the streets of Cairo; bearing in their hands a 
