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will be a good one. Numerous outfits of natives await our pleasure with queer sayings & goods for sale. "Egyptian mail" up to S. "good waster". Another will chime in with "Eggs a cook" "good ones" & three for half", he's good" from the orange vendor. Cake, Cairo, Cake, & Nesterlers from the pastry man & then a whispering sly voice will chime "Biere" "Pyramid" good. One could relate for hours these sayings but I find I should want to carry a complete office outfit.
I have visited a good number of the outlaying suburbs & find it very hard to outclass Zeatoun. It has a charm of its own & viewing the surrounding districts from my friend's balcony was certainly a treat. Right across was the palatial & modern suburb of Helioplis (City of the sun) & on the right the plantation & residence of the Khedive & the left side showed Maadi & its adjacent environments. Most of the places mentioned are indeed beautiful & at present the white tents of the soldiers contrasting with the different hues make it rather picturesque.
On the river Nile going towards the Pyramids we have Ghizeh – a very charming riverside residential – the home of mostly Europeans - & in towards Cairo