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Updated: May 7, 2025
Faster and faster the horses were trotting, leading the long file of carriages and impatient motors that bore the relatives and guests and trousseau, rolling on under the lebbeks and sycamores of the wide Shubra Avenue, once the delight of fashionables before the Gezireh Drive had drained it of its throngs and its prestige.
Seeds, steeped for some time in the acid, lose their power of germination. Ibid. Two or three miles from Cairo, approached by an avenue of sycamores, is Shubra, a favourite residence of the Pasha of Egypt.
Christian churches at Cairo The Esbekie-square Theatre Howling dervishes Mashdalansher, the birthday of Mahomet Procession and religious ceremony Shubra Excursion through the desert to Suez Hardships of the journey Scenes in the desert The camel Caravans Mirage The Red Sea Suez Bedouin camp Quarrel with the camel- driver Departure for Alexandria.
Yet this Court is never seen to greater advantage than in the delicious summer palace in the gardens of Shubra. During the festival of the Bairam, the Pasha generally holds his state in this enchanted spot, nor is it easy to forget that strange and brilliant scene.
He had once spent a month's holiday in visiting ruined cities with Maspero, the great Maspero himself, going with him to Luxor, to Karnak, with its great avenues of sphinxes, to El Amarna and Shubra.
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