The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-07-17
THINGS AS T1EY SEEMED TIC BE

AnG WOuICIO VI ILLS SO WA0O.
November 9th-The most interest
ing thing in Cairo is the museum
Here may be seen the mummies Of
the kings who were buried in the pyr
amids The tombs have been opened
by curious men and their contents
placed in museums, where travellers
may see and study them in comfort
The body of Rameses End may be
seen in the museum at Cairo, as wei
as the bodies of various other kings
and queens, and they are so we'll pre-
served that you r able to recognize
their features and characteristics
The idle crowds pass along and say,
with tip-tilted nose, ugh, see the
mummy; amt he horrid?" while 9th
ers stop and wonder how they kept
him"
The first mosque we visited was
built from stones taken from the pyr.
amids, which have been badly mutt
lated to get building material for the
city buildings. AS we drove away
from this n we could see where
some of the spent bullets OF Napo-
Icons soldiers had embedded them
selves in the towers and turrets.
From here we drove up a very steep
approach to the citadel. On the way
we passed the street w~aterers, sprink-
ling the streets from the goat-skin
bags flung across their shoulders.
In a narrow street by the gate of
the citadel Mehomet-Ali. in 1911, aus
ed 400 Mamalukes to be put to death.
One of the party which had been
treacherously led into this blind, es-
capped 1t is said that he drove his
horse rel the parapet and escaped
injury, although the horse was kill
ed.
From the clIaoel we drove through
some of the cheaper bazaar districts
to visit the university, which is To-
Gated in an old mosque. The univer-
sity has some 1900 students in at
tendance, all being instructed in the
superstitions of Egypt. The students
sit cross-legged on the floor, and,
with a swaying motion from side to
side-which motion is supposed to be
an aid to memory-repeat what the
guide told us were lines from the Ko-
n or listen att~entively to their
teacher, who sat on a stool raised a
foot or two above his squatting pu-
pills, and n could understand the
oriental meaning conveyed in these
words, HE sat at the feet of CANA
liel, and learned of him."
One must put on sandals for this
trip, as our ungodly shoes would
bring contamination into the place,
and we'll they might, for the few
steps we were obliged to walk were
through a decidedly dirty. filthy
street. We drove from here through
the most congested street l ever saw
1t was the market street, and a stead
lily moving crowd of turbaned and
fezzed heads moved before us. The
yelled ladies and the unveiled ladies,
the blind and sore-eyed, the beggars
and the deformed, Ugh what a shud-
derful crowd it was. The water-vend-
er clapping a little brass symbol and
carrying their water vessels on their
backs were ~purveying their wares
through the street, when a customer
was found the carrier would lean
forward far enough to give the vessel
the right tilt and fill the cup. We
finally emerged from this congestion
and drove through the better district
of bazaars, along the Mousky street,
where the finer articles and most of
the jewery is for sale. These baZaars
are little shelf like places, many not
more than three or four feet square
The proprietor could sit or stand in
most of them and without stirring
reach any article in his stock. One
thing that impressed me was that
while the proprietor might sit on a
chair rather than the ground, he al
most invariably drew his feet on the
seat of it and sat cross-legged, a
heritage from a long line of cross-leg-
ged ancestors doubtless. Having seer
all the bazaars, museums and
mosques / cared to see. we drove to
H~eliopolis. the ancient city of Or.
mentioned in the Bible and was at
one time renowned as q seat of learn.
ing. Plato and other notaAles receiv-
cd much of their education here. We
stopped at the Virgin trees. or the
Mary trees. as u coachman called