 | James Webster - 1830 - 468 sider
...the end of which stands the house of the English consulate. Cairo, seen at a distance, is beautiful j but whatever may have been thought in its favour vanishes...absolutely indescribable. Few of the streets are wider than 'Change- alley, and they are unpaved and winding. Carriages are never seen. With the thermometer at... | |
 | Andrew Beattie - 2005 - 250 sider
...observations are echoed by another English traveller of the 1820s, James Webster, who commented that "half the inhabitants of the town are so filthy and...exposure. Their dirt is absolutely indescribable... [the narrow streets were] blocked with clouds of small and almost imperceptible dust, which got into... | |
 | Andrew Beattie - 2005 - 250 sider
...observations are echoed by another English traveller of the 1 820s, James Webster, who commented that "half the inhabitants of the town are so filthy and...exposure. Their dirt is absolutely indescribable... [the narrow streets were] blocked with clouds of small and almost imperceptible dust, which got into... | |
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... entering it. In the East, show is everything— from the fretted ornamental minaret, down to the silk covered and tasselled pipes, which the syce, or groom, carries before his master. The scenes which the traveller here meets, are powerfully opposed... 