Identifier: upnilehomeagainh00fair (find matches)
Title: Up the Nile, and home again. A handbook for travellers and a travel-book for the library.
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Fairholt, F. W. (Frederick William), 1814-1866
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Publisher: London, Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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n whichthey engraft native ornament; but these things havea strange hybrid look, while their more genuineworks have frequently great and peculiar merits.The great staple manufacture, however, is pipe-bowls, which are made in enormous quantities, andhave the deserved reputation of being the best inEgypt. They are carried far and wide, and rivalthe bowls made at Constantinople ; from which theymay be distinguished by a deeper tone of red andan absence of gilded ornament. The London tobaccoshops are seldom without specimens; but they areunfitted for smoking the heavy tobaccos of Europe,though admirably adapted for Latakia, and the lightleaf of the East. Busy groups of men and boys maybe seen in all the bazaars at work on these bowls,and a minute division of labour takes place in theirfabrication, which would not disgrace an Englishfactory, and ensures perfection, by apportioning eachperson that which his constant practice gives himmost power to complete properly. The pipe-makers pi. vni.
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Tmcerrb Brooks. imp BAZAAR , SI OUT. SIOUT TO KENEH. 175 exercise much fancy in their art, and are constantlyvarying their designs. The last novelty was theproduction of a very largebowl, with wheels on eachside moving freely on a pivot,all made in red or black clay :it is not without its merit onthe score of utility; for pipe-stems, as used by gentlemen, are generally fromfour to six feet in length, and they are frequentlypushed toward an attendant to be refilled, as thesmoker sits on the divan. The Bazaar is of very great extent—a windingcovered way, between well-stocked shops of allkinds, from whence smaller bazaars and open marketsbranch off on both sides. Ventilation is secured bytrap-doors in the wooden roof, constructed so thatthey may be opened and shut at pleasure, by ropeswhich regulate them. Plate VIII. is copied from asketch taken about midway in the place. In theforeground is the shop of a coffee-seller, a mostindispensable person in establishments of this kind;for ever

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