r4 GRAND CAIRO. 
^^^^- kind of toy, common in England, consisting of a 
^«— V — -^ number ofpieces of wood, in the shape of playing- 
cards, strung together, and revolving from 
top to bottom ; such as are called, by children, 
trick-track, and are often painted to display the 
Cries of London. These toys seemed to delight 
the Arabs ; who considered them as put toge- 
ther by magic. For the rest of the exhibition, 
it much resembled the shows of our mounte- 
banks ; each party having its Merry Andreiu, who 
endured hard kicks and cuffs for the amusement 
of the populace. 
By means of the canal which intersects the 
city, and was now filled with its muddy water, 
we visited a great part of Cairo in a boat. The 
prodigious number of gardens give to it so 
pleasing an appearance, and the trees growing 
in those gardens are so new to the eyes of a 
European, that, for a moment, he forgets the 
innumerable abominations of the dirtiest city in 
the whole world. xMany of the most conspi- 
Trccs. cuous of thcse trees have been often described; 
but not all of them. The most beautiful among 
them, the Mimosa Lehbeck, has not even been 
mentioned in any account yet published of 
Cairo ; which is the more extraordinary, as it 
grows upon the banks of the canal; and its 
