Curzon, Robert, 1810-1873 · London : J. Murray · leaf 47
horseback with goldenbridles and velvet trappings, and women muffled upin black silk wrappers; how they could bear them, hotas it was, astonished us. These ladies sat upon a pileof cushions placed so high above the backs of thedonkeys on which they rode that their feet rested onthe animals… … NEGRESS WAITING TO BE SOLD IN THE SLAVB BAZAAR, CAIRO. Chap. I. BRIDAL PARTY BLACK SLAVES. 5 and ensconced in high-backed Mameluke saddles madeof silver gilt. These boys we afterwards found out werebeing conducted in state to a house of their relations,where the rite of circumcision was to be…
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