TITLE VIGNETTE TO VOL. III

SCENE IN A STREET IN CAIRO.

THIS view is one of the most generally characteristic of the streets and buildings of Cairo that the Artist could select. The narrow way, overhanging houses, trellised windows, sheds and shops, the throng of people and the crowning minaret of the mosque, rich in all that constitutes such an Arab structure, make up a scene of singular and picturesque beauty. It is thus presented in the main street of Cairo, which leads from the square of the Citadel to the Bab-el-Nasr, or Gate of Victory. The streets bear the name of the Gimaleah, or Camel Way, because through it lies the course of the procession of the camel that yearly, in the caravan of pilgrims, bears from Cairo the sacred covering for the tomb of the Prophet at Mecca.