text:  In the _riwaks_ or apartments appropriated to students from different countries chiefly poor scholars supported by the funds of the mosque "after passing successively among natives of different divisions of Egypt we find ourselves in the company of people of Mekkeh and El-Medeeneh; then in the midst of Syrians; in another minute among Muslims of Central Africa; next among Magharbeh (or natives of Northern Africa west of Egypt;) then with European and Asiatic Turks; and quitting these we are introduced to Persians and Muslims of India; we may almost fancy ourselves transported through their respective countries