THE GATE OF THE METWALIS, OR BAB ZUWEYLEH, CAIRO

THIS gate is not situated in the wall of the city which surrounds Cairo, but is one of those within it, which serve to communicate between one part of the city and another, and are so placed that they divide Cairo into quarters, or districts, and thus furnish to the Pasha a means of cutting off from the rest any division which may be in state of insurrection. The gate leads between the two beautiful minarets of a mosque, the subject of another drawing in this work.

The great line of streets which leads from the citadel to the Bab en Nasr lies through the Metwalis gate, and the great caravan of the Mecca pilgrims passes beneath it to leave the city by the Gate of Victory.

Robert's Notes