text:  The buildings offer scarcely a less singular contrast:--the lofty prison-like close casemented fronts of the huge Mahometan dwellings frowning in grim repose upon the spruce shops and glittering hotels of the French and Italian trader and tavern-keeper; and though last most memorable of all--the old Pasha the only man in existence who has given a new being to a people; the true regenerator of his country or rather the creator of a nation out of one of the most abject exhausted and helpless races of mankind