text:  At the house of an Egyptian grandee an European gentleman on receiving the sherbet after pipes and coffee which was handed to him first as a stranger "looked at it for a moment and then at the gaily-embroidered napkin hung over the arm of the slave who presented it; and following the impulse given I conclude by his preconceptions of Eastern habits of cleanliness dipped his fingers in the sweet beverage and wiped them on the napkin!" A less pardonable breach of etiquette as it proceeded not from ignorance but want of good-breeding was committed by two Franks who arranged in a motley mixture of European and Oriental costume made their way into the Pasha's palace at Shubra and after rambling from room to room without meeting any one at length entered the bedroom of the Pasha who was nearly undressed! "Though taken by surprise his Turkish coolness did not forsake him; calling for his dragoman he said 'Ask those gentlemen where they bought their tarbooshes?' 'At Constantinople