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The Story of Cairo

First Edition, April 1902

Second Edition, April 1906

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Cairo from the South-west: the Lake of the Elephant (Birkat-el-Fil)

The Story of Cairo

by Stanley Lane-Poole Litt.D. M.A. Professor of Arabic at Trinity College Dublin

London: J. M. Dent & Co. Aldine House 29 and 30 Bedford Street Covent Garden W.C. 1906

He who hath not seen Cairo hath not seen the World.

Her Soil is Gold;

Her Nile is a Marvel;

Her Women are as the bright-eyed Houris of Paradise;

Her houses are Palaces, and her Air is soft, with an odour above Aloes, refreshing the Heart;

And how should Cairo be otherwise, when she is the Mother of the World?