SCENE IN A STREET IN CAIRO. 
TITLE VIGNETTE TO VOL. VI. 
This view is one of the most generally characteristic of the streets and buildings 
of Cairo that the Artist could select. The narrow way, overhanging houses, trellised 
windows, sheds and shops, the throng of people and the crowning minaret of the 
mosque, rich in all that constitutes such an Arab structure, make up a scene of 
singular and picturesque beauty. It is thus presented in the main street of Cairo, 
which leads from the sqiiare of the Citadel to the Bab-el-Nasr, or Gate of Victory; 
the street bears the name of the Gimaleah, or Camel Way, because through it 
lies the course of the procession of the camel that yearly, in the caravan of pilgrims, 
bears from Cairo the sacred covering for the tomb of the Prophet at Mecca. 
