114 GRAND CAIRO. 
^ m^" P^^^"^8'' "^ their boats, beneath a bridge; calling 
' V ' out E hi/ Elo'i! (pronounced Eloiie!) in a plain- 
Appear- tive tone of incantation'. The females oi Cairo 
ance of . 
Women in arc oitcn scctt, in the public streets, ridmg upon 
the Streets. , , ^ , • i • . i 
asses and upon mules: they sit ni the mascu- 
line attitude, like the women of Naples and 
other parts of Italy. Their dress consists of a 
hood, and cloak, extending to the feet, with a 
stripe of white calico in front, concealing the 
face and breast, but having two small holes for 
the eyes. In this disguise, if any man were to 
meet his own wife, or his sister, he would not 
be able to recognise her, unless she were to 
speak to him ; and this is seldom done, because 
the suspicious Moslems, observing such an inter- 
course, might suppose an intrigue to be going 
on; in which case they would put one, if not 
Enormities both of them, to death. The Turks had com- 
ity the mitted great enormities in Cairo, from the first 
Turks. moment of their arrival, after the capture of the 
city. If they found an unfortunate female, of 
whatsoever rank, who had admitted the em- 
braces of a Frenchman, or of any other Christian, 
they put her to death, without the smallest 
(l) See Genesis xxxiii, 20.; also Mark xv. 34. who uses the S?/ro- 
Chaldaick dialect of the Hebrew, as it was in use in the time of our 
Saviour ; Elo'i for Eli. 
