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Updated: May 27, 2025
The Cophts, supposed to be descended from the ancient Egyptian nation, discharged most civil functions under the Mamelukes, and had the trades and professions in their hands, but they also were oppressed intolerably by those haughty and ferocious soldiers. The Mamelukes were considered by Napoleon to be, individually, the finest cavalry in the world.
Captain Newbold, in fact, assumes that any person "who remains in Egypt longer than the ordinary run of travellers, and roams about the streets and environs of the large towns, can hardly fail to notice the strange appearance of certain females, whose features at once distinguish them from the ordinary Fellah Arabs and Cophts of the country."
Mahomet introduces me to the Gipsies. They call themselves Tataren. The Rhagarin or Gipsies at Boulac. Cophts. Herr Seetzen on Egyptian Gipsies. The Gipsy with the Monkey in Cairo. Street- cries of the Gipsy Women in Egypt. Captain Newbold on the Egyptian Gipsies.
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