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Identifier: upnilehomeagainh00fair (find matches)
Title: Up the Nile, and home again. A handbook for travellers and a travel-book for the library.
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Fairholt, F. W. (Frederick William), 1814-1866
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Publisher: London, Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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r ~ CAIRO AND THE PYRAMIDS. 55 by law to carry lights with them if they walkout after dark, and are liable to detention as sus-picious characters should they be caught infringingit. Carriages are accompanied byrunning footmen, who bear an openfire-pot, filled with resinous wood,at the top of a pole; the pointedend is stuck in the ground whilethey wait for their masters outsidethe door; the staff is thrown, acrossthe shoulder as thev fly beside thecarriage. It is called a Meshal, andin its nature is identical with thecresset, which in former times wascarried by the marching watch ofLondon, and alluded to by Shakespeare under thatname in the speech he gives to Owen Glendower(Henry IV. Part I., Act iii. Sc. 1) : — At my nativity,The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes,Of burning cressets. Later at night, when man has deserted thestreets, the dogs have the town to themselves.It is curious, in the stillness of the night, to listento their uproar,—the barking and howling of thenear

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