It is difficult to describe the noble and stupendous ruins of Thebes. I do not believe that the contents of all bazaars in Siout, one of the largest towns in Egypt, were worth as much as the stocks of an ordinary dealer in dry goods on Broadway. I often visited the slave-market in Cairo. Black and brown people lie separated into lots, and are offered for sale by the conductors. Of all the places ever visited, Cairo will be preeminent in our recollections, for the 'compound of the most villainous smells' which perpetually salutes the oilfactories, and the like of which was certainly never elaborated from any mortal place.
Nothing can be more unassuming and tractable than their behaviour.
Shopping in Cairo and shopping in London are similar operations in the abstract notion only, viz. , that of going out to purchase many different things at many different shops. But not so in Egypt.