camel-square

Updated: July 28, 2025

The camels afford endless motives, couched in the market-places, lying by thousands in the camel-square, snorting and bubbling after their manner, the sun blazing down on their backs, their slaves and keepers lying behind them in the shade: and the Caravan Bridge, above all, would afford a painter subjects for a dozen of pictures.

William Makepeace Thackeray - From Cornhill to Grand Cairo