text:  We find her threading the narrow and crowded thoroughfares of Cairo borne aloft on the "high ass "[15] (the usual mode of conveyance for morning calls;) and are introduced to the wives and daughters of the viceroy and even (in the hareem of Habeeb Effendi) to ladies of the imperial house of Othman in the ease and _disinvoltura_ of their domestic circles amid that atmosphere of _dolce far niente_ and graceful etiquette in which the hours of an Oriental princess appear to be habitually passed