Note 481 — KING SHAH BAKHT AND HIS WAZIR AL-RAHWAN.[295] (continued 3)
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
Characteristically Eastern and Moslem is this action of the neighbours and bystanders. A walk through any Oriental city will show a crowd of people screaming and gesticulating, with thundering yells and lightning glances, as if about to close in mortal fight, concerning some matter which in no way concerns them. Our European cockneys and badauds mostly content themselves with staring and mobbing.