"On the bank of the Nile opposite Old Cairo is the place known as The Garden, which is a pleasure park and promenade, containing many beautiful gardens, for the people of Cairo are given to pleasure an…"

"The dogs in this land are very fierce. They bark at strangers and try to bite them. I had to carry a stick to fend them off."

"The people of this country are very clean, but they are not religious."

"Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller."

"I was invited to a feast, and they served me a dish of roasted dog."