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fasting and abstinence, is so much lighter than that of the native Egyptians, that they seem to us as white as Europeans. This curious sect is of modern origin, and Mohamet Ali brought them from Constantinople to Cairo, about fifty years ago. Nothing in civilized lands resembles their performances as much as the whirling of the Shakers.
Our visit to Memphis and the pyramids of Ghizah and Sakara will be described in my next letter.
W. P. F.
