CAMEL AND DRIVER IN CAIRO STREET.—The Cairo Street camels had varied duties to perform, at one time being hurried along with much mauling and gesticulation to convey a rider, or perhaps a couple, from one end of the street to the other and unload them hurriedly to make room for other experimenting people, and again, bedecked with cumbrous trappings, led along the same boisterous thoroughfare to take part in some procession alleged to be a duplicate of what may be seen in the streets of the genuine Cairo on the Nile. It is when prepared for his appearance in the latter capacity that the camel in the illustration appears, led by his far from conventionally beautiful master. In the immense howdah, looking like a garden tent upon the camel’s back, is supposed to be a fair Egyptian, for it is to be a wedding procession which will add to the street spectacle.
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