TOMBS OF THE MAMELUKES, CAIRO. 
Anothee of those picturesque but nameless mosque-tombs which are scattered over 
that part of the Desert which lies just without the walls of Cairo and forms its necropolis; 
they help to fill the pages of the artist’s sketch-book, though they have not left a line 
for the historian’s. Raised at a great cost by the caliph, or the bey for his tomb, it 
sometimes happened that he never rested there; hut found in the utter want of pro¬ 
tection for life and property under such governments as have cursed Egypt, a more 
ignoble and dishonoured grave, with no one to inherit, for none ventured to claim the 
dangerous honour of being his successor: his name was soon forgotten and his 
mosque-tomb left to fall into decay, like the dust of the common inhabitants of earth 
around him. 
