Identifier: redemptionofegyp00worsuoft (find matches)
Title: The redemption of Egypt
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Worsfold, W. Basil (William Basil), 1858-1939
Subjects: Egypt -- Description and travel
Publisher: London G. Allen
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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have a good lunch at the Mena House Hotel. Nevertheless it is all there, even to the plash of fountains andattar of roses. The fact is that there are two Cairos, which, lyingside by side without any visible division betAveen them, hold twopopulations whose lives are absolutely distinct and dissimilai. According to the latest returns, Cairo has a population of some600,000 inhabitants. Of these, the great bulk are closely crowdedin the network of narrow streets of which the old town is com-posed, Avhile the remainder occupy the spacious streets and squareslying to the west and north. The city lies on the east bank ofthe Nile, between the desert at the foot of the Mokattam Hillsand the river. Roughly speaking it extends for two miles eastand west, and for three miles north and south. If the rectan-gular space thus indicated be divided by a line drawn diagonallyfrom the railway station on the north to the Citadel on the south,it will roughly separate European from mediaeval Cairo. To the
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Emir el-Gai Yusefi Mosque from Suk es-Sellaha Page 74 FROM MEMPHIS TO CAIRO 75 east of this line 500,000 brown-skiuned Arabs are living in thequaintest and most delightful, but, at the same time, the dirtiestand most dilapidated of streets. Seen from the Citadel, thisCairo presents the appearance of a mass of level roofs, out ofwhich countless minarets and domes rise skywards. To the westof this line are the palaces, public buildings, the wide tree-linedstreets, and the gardens of the European quarters. Here, in theseinfinitely less picturesque, but infinitely more sanitary, streets andsquares, the bulk of the 20,000 or 30,000 Europeans live, togetherwith the Egyptian grandees and their households. Seen from theroof of one of the numerous palaces erected on the east bank ofthe Nile, this Cairo looks like a vast garden intersected with whiteroads bordered by lebbek avenues, and variegated by patches ofbright-hued flowering shrubs, in the midst of which the whitewalls and roofs of the h

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