Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1873-06-09

| CAlRo.-A traveller in the East is writing
| letters to the n. Y. Observer. Here is what
he says Of Cairo,
! Cairo is about l3O miles south of Alexandria
/ 1t is one Of TIA. most singular and intere At
| ing cities in the world. 1t is the III setting place
| Of all nations.
, In its streets are men and women of all
shades Of color and all varieties CT dress. Il is
i tvs cities united in one-an ancient and mod
| ern, an eastern and western. The western part
of the city, reaching TO the Nile, is entirely
new and modern.
| Large, wide avenues are laid out, paved, gut
/ tered, and lighted with gas and supplied with
water. This part is being built with modern
| houses, with yards around them filled with
tropical trees and flowers. Many old streets
have been demolished, and new, wide and
regular streets are being laid out and built up
on the western side.
When in this part Of the city you can well
1 imagine yourse'f in Chicago or some thriving
| Western city Of the United States. On the east
ern side of this new part Of the city is the
Eshekeeyah-a large, beautiful park, surround,
cd by an elegant stone and iron fence, contain
ing an artificial grotto, lakes, fountains, walks
trees and flowers; embracing all that is enclant-
lug in Oriental scenery and picturng before you
the tairy-lke scenes Of "Lalla Rookh" or the
"Arabian Nights"
Two years since, this park was a morass. In
this part OF The city are many other squares or
parks, with large circular marble fountains, and
all has such an air of life, enterprise and i'm
provement that no one would, for a moment,
suppose themselves in one of the Eastern cities
of the world,
Here are located the hotels, which are filed
with Americans and Englshinen, and you
hear nothing but English spoken. Even TIE
donkey boys will address you in English, and
| you seem more at home than You do in Paris.
| But pass across the street from Shepherds
| Hotel and there you will see the BedOulls of
Mt. Sinai loading their long train of came 5 for
| the journey across the Desert, all arrayed in
the costumes which thee nations have No N
since the days of Abraham.
| At this spot the East and the West CO me up
face to face with each other Pass on east for
two minutes, and you are buried in the mar
| row, crowded, confused streets of Cairo, as We
have always imagined it, filed with donkeys,
| camels and crowds of men of all kindreds and
| tongues III der heaven, dressed in costumes
most diverse, and yelled women, with bright
silk pantaloons or riding on donkeys, and en-
tirey envelnpcd iu n black silk balloon.
| As tho carriage Of some pasha or the harem
of some dignitary comes along you will see il
: preceded by two runpers, dressed in white tur-
bans, flowing white robes bound at the waist
! with bright scarf and with colored silk vest
holding long rod in the right hand and clear
| ing way for the carriage among the crowd.
! These runners are called sahs. They aie ex-
| ceedingly picturesque and very swift. They
will run for hours fast as any carriage will
60, and every carriage IN Cairo is obliged to
have ;hrm to prevent accidents ia the crowded
Streets lIee is oriental life in all its glory ;
| yet Ia thes crowded baz .rs you are sue to
meet Americans and familiar faces.