100 GRAND CAIRO. 
CHAP, relling. The Arabic, as spoken by Arahs, is more 
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guttural even than the Welsh; but the dialect 
^angua<re, ^^ ^gVP^ appeared to us to be particularly harsh, 
fn E°^?^ ^^ ^^ always spoken with a vehemence of ges- 
ticulation, and loudness of tone, which is quite 
a contrast to the stately sedate manner of 
speaking among the Turks : we were con- 
stantly impressed with a notion that the Arabs, 
in conversation, were quarreUing. More than 
once we ordered the interpreter to interfere, 
and to pacify them; when it appeared that 
we were mistaken, and that nothing was 
further from their feelings, at the time, than 
anger. The effect is not so unpleasing to the 
ear, when Arab women converse ; although the 
gesticulation be nearly the same. Signer 
Rosetti\ whose hospitality to strangers has been 
celebrated by every traveller in Egypt during 
nearly half a century, introduced us to a Vene- 
tian family, of the name of Pini ^ in which there 
were many beautiful young women, and with 
(1) M.T. Bruce mentions him {Trav. vol.1, p. 30. Edinb. 1790.) under 
the name of " Carlo Rosetti, a Venetian merchant, a young man of 
capacity and intrigue." Bruce was in Cairo in the beginning of c/u/y, 
1768. S\^TiOT Rosetti told us he well remembered Zfj-wt'e, and enter- 
tained no doubt as to the truth of the narrative which he published 
concerning his travels. 
(2) " There is also at Cairo a Venetian Consul, and a house of that 
nation called Fiwi, all excellent people." Bruce's Trav. vol.1, p. 26. 
