Excerpt from Adventures During a Journey Overland to India, Vol. 2 of 2: By Way of Egypt, Syria and the Holy Land Travellers may write for ever, but they cannot hope to convey to one unacquainted with Eastern scenes, the appearance of an Eastern gathering. I joined in the throng that was passing through the principal gate, and, as I was still in the European dress, attracted an uncomfortable degree of notice. I was bewildered with the variety of figures in the crowd; a line of women, enveloped in white sheets, filed slowly towards the burial-ground, where they usually take up their positions as if they were on their return to their graves; their faces hidden with dark-coloured handkerchiefs, or so shrouded within the folds of their linen coverings, that not a feature was to be seen. They seemed all of the same dimensions, and moved with the same gait; their feet, in yellow boots, just appeared below the white drapery, and gave them the air, as they waddled along, of gigantic ducks. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.

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