text:  She had even adopted the native manner of eating; and had habituated herself to wear the Turkish dress with such ease as to witness unsuspected the splendid procession of the _Mahmal_ [19] or emblem of royalty which precedes the march of the pilgrim caravan to Mekka--an occasion on which the boys of Cairo enjoy a kind of saturnalia and are privileged to maltreat any Christian or Jew who may be detected near the route