cheeks, white even teeth, and rich fair complexion. She had often come in to spend an hour with m

nies had been drawn up by the fathers and mothers and signed in the presence of a priest without a word or suggestion from the parties most concerned in the transaction. The intended bridegroom was a young clerk in

midst of hundreds of colored torches. A band was playing Arab tunes and women were ringing out the zaghareet-wedding laugh of joy-which is a kind of trill

that is, she was wrapped in a cashmere shawl, not covered by a canopy, as in Arab wed

over this a long flowing robe of lace, while masses

e smoke of which must have poured directly into her face a

illing the zaghareet, followed the female friends; and along the whole procession two boys ran back and forth, bearing si

Then a sheep was killed on the door-stone-a custom, I believe, observed only in Cairo, and some of the larger cities of Egypt. The bride, glittering with her diamonds and gorgeous costume, was carried over it and th

divan reached around it and constituted its sole furniture,

to open them. Immediately upon one having been broken, out flew a lovely white dove, its neck encircled with tiny bells which rang merrily as it flew about. The other dove did not at first fly, when l

tachio, nuts, bread and parsley; sweets and melons following. But as an Arab eats wi

to be performed, into which we were ushered in the midst of Arab music, sounding cymb

n one of two palatial-looking chairs. In the midst of a perfect storm of music and confusion a do

ith incense, while the priest whose eyes were perfect tied the nuptial knot by binding the waiting couple to each other with several yard

luded the

projecting balconies, out into the Mooski, the Broadway of Cairo, now silent and deserted; on into the wide, new streets, and so home; but it was nearly morning before I fell