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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. BUSINESS ACTIVITY ? PANORAMA OF COSTUMES ? NATIVES AND FOREIGNERS?A DAUGHTER OF THE DRUSES?ENGLISH MILORDS ? RAMBLES THROUGH THE STREETS ? BAZAARS AND SHOPS ? SOUVENIRS OF SYRIA ? THE HAMMAM ? THE FASHIONABLE PROMENADE?THE CLOSE OF THE DAY. Ti? pleasant, through the loop holes of retreat, To peep at such a world; to see the stir Of the great Bahel, and not feel the crowd. Cowper. By ten o'clock every man is at his post again, and the business of the day may be said to have fairly commenced. European merchants, from their houses in the outskirts, make their appearance, followed by faithful native seraffs, conversing the while on the profit and loss of yesterday's speculation, and uttering significant hopes as to the realization of those now in hand. The din and the turmoil of business sweeps up and down the streets and over house-tops like a noisy human hurricane; muscular porters, tottering under the weight of ponderous iron bars and bales of Manchester goods, scream out notes of warning to those who impede their progress; the startling cry, dahrak / (or, 22 WSINESS ACTIVITY. your back ) imparts amazing agility to the most dignified strut or the most corpulent bearing; speedily the passengers make room for the burtheued, and the goods are swallowed up in the dark recesses of vast warehouses, only to make room for a fresh shoal of groaning porters. Meanwhile, in the most central thoroughfare, and where the densest crowds are congregated, open corn markets are held; clouds of dust half obscure the hot labourers measuring out the wheat; a troop of donkeys gallop over the edges of the corn factor's treasures; a long string of camels stalk majestically through the crowd, and they have barely disappeared before the public auctioneer takes up his po...
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