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One of the most novel and interesting sights which attracts the traveller's attention when he first arrives in Egypt is the syce running before the horses as they go through the narrow, closely packed streets. How the crowd scatters, and the donkey-boys hustle their meek property out of the way as one of those runners comes bounding along, shouting, in the strange Arabic tongue, "Clear the way!" The sun shines upon his velvet vest, glittering with its spangled trimmings, the breeze fills the large floating sleeves till they wave backward like white wings.

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Harper's Young People, April 27, 1880
An Illustrated Weekly
Available from gutenberg.org

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Thursday 13 January 2022

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Century:19th, Country:Egypt, Occupations, Place:Middle East

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