Oriental Zigzag Or Wanderings In Syria Moab Abyssinia And Egypt By Charles Hamilton

Author : Charles Hamilton
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780282382995
Total Pages : 332 pages
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Download or read book Oriental Zigzag, Or Wanderings in Syria, Moab, Abyssinia, and Egypt (Classic Reprint) written by Charles Hamilton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Oriental Zigzag, or Wanderings in Syria, Moab, Abyssinia, and Egypt Some of the streets are filthy in the extreme, and our only marvel was how the inhabitants contrived to escape the cholera. Very remarkable is the Greek quarter of the town, with its dreadful hovels sheltering its fearfully degraded population. Here one is oppressed with a peculiar faint odour, which we found no difficulty in trac ing to the environment of vast establishments of wire. Hided Maltese pigs which are maintained in spite of the Mussulman abhorrence of the unclean animal. Against the Greek element, indeed, remonstrance would be of no avail in Alexandria. The Greek is the only nation that the Egyptian dreads. Upon the most trifling provoca tion or insult from a Mahommedan, the Greek does not hesitate to fillet him at once; and the consequence is that the Arab, fully alive to his antagonist's resolute ways, carefully avoids getting into disputes with him. Notwithstanding this radical opposition of race, however, it is curious to remark that the Greeks largely employ themselves as money-lenders to the Arabs, and act as small bankers to them. With the exception of the French, they are the only people who ever get their loans repaid; and, in explanation of the success of the French in that section of commercial life, it is only necessary here to observe that the French Consulate are wont to make most extraordinary demands when pay ments of money are not faithfully observed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.