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SCIOPTICON M A NU A L. Ill A TRAVELER'S NILE BOAT, OR " DAHABEEK." —The traveler who visits Egypt can avail himself of public conveyance as far as Cairo, but if ho desire to visit the remains of ancient grandeur that lie to the south, he must engage a Nile boat, which becomes, for the time being, both the means of locomotion and his home; and as all the points of interest are near the river, a more commodious plan for visiting them could hardly be de- vised. As there are no towns above Cairo everything in the shape of comforts and luxuries must be provided before setting out. STREET IN CAIRO. —The streets in Cairo, like those of most Oriental towns, are narrow, being some eight or ten feet wide. The houses are mostly three stories in height, each story projecting over the other, and the plain stone walls are either whitewashed or striped with horizontal red bars, as seen in the picture. The beautiful latticed windows, " masharobeahs/' are the chief ornament of the old Mameluke houses in Cairo. The wood seems rather woven in the loom than cut with the saw and chisel.* Through these lattices of fine net- work, with borffofs worked in lace-like patterns, and sometimes tipped with slender turrets, the Cairo ladies sit and watch the crowd passing to and fro, themselves unseen. " The mother of Sisera looked out at a window and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming?"—Jud. 5 : 28. Donkey-riding in the streets, and bazars, is almost universal. The animals are small but strong. The driver runs behind, gives the donkey a punch, cries "O man, take care! O boy, get out of the way!" and the rider is hurried into a confusion of other donkeys, loaded camels, water-carriers, and foot- men. To one unaccustomed to donkey-riding it seems