------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s Note: This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_. The footnotes have been collected at the end of the chapter in which they are referenced. Illustration captions have been moved to fall on paragraph breaks. There are a number of musical scores, in the text, which could not be rendered in this version. The lyrics, however, are given with hyphens to represent the phrasing. Several of the songs are followed by the complete lyrics as poetry. Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any other textual issues encountered during its preparation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LANE’S MODERN EGYPTIANS [Illustration: THE DÓSEH. (Page 416.) _Lane’s Modern Egyptians_] [_Frontispiece_ ] AN ACCOUNT OF THE Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians Written in Egypt during the Years 1833-1835 BY EDWARD WILLIAM LANE Translator of _The Thousand and One Nights_ With Eighty Illustrations and Sixteen Full-Page Engravings, and Biographical Notice of the Author LONDON WARD, LOCK AND CO. LIMITED NEW YORK AND MELBOURNE BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION. [Illustration] Fortunately in recent years many educated, observant, and enterprising Englishmen have studied Mussulman life and character in many parts of the world. The names of Sir Richard Burton and Edward Henry Palmer stand as types of the later generation of these men; but in the early part of this century no man can be named who has greater claims to recognition and gratitude for his labours in this direction than Edward William Lane. To him we owe an admirable translation of “The Thousand and One Nights,” with notes, which form a complete encyclopædia of Arab manners and customs; selections from the Koran, which introduce the English reader to its most valuable portions; an invaluable Arabic-English Lexicon; and lastly the present work, which has been described as “the most remarkable description of a people ever written.”