Excerpt from The Englishwoman in Egypt, Vol. 2 of 2: Letters From Cairo; Written During a Residence There in 1842, 3, and 4 The haunted house - Climate of Egypt - State of the poor - Respect paid to the mother of a family - The wife - Preparation of food and manner of eating - Eastern etiquette Dinner arrangements Sacredness of the hareem, and respect paid to females - Usage of marry ing without having seen the future wife Pages 9-20. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.