THE OUTSKIRTS OF CAIRO Night.

A long straight road, the artery of some capital, through which our carriage drives at a fast trot, making a deafening clatter on the pavement.

Electric light everywhere.

The shops are closing; it must needs be late.
The road is Levantine in its general character; and we should have no clear notion of the place did we not see in our rapid, noisy passage signs that recall us to the land of the Arabs.

People pass dressed in the long robe and tarboosh of the East; and some of the houses, above the European shops, are ornamented with mushrabiyas.