P2. Geographical description of the Nile flood.  It's role in agriculture.  River and canals are [inundated].

P3. Climate and temperature year round is a healthy one.  [but] The [exhalations] late autumn soil after the flood.  Loss of sight. The plague and El-khamaseen the hot dry weather in April.  The hot dry weather brings excessive dust.  When the flies and mosquitos don't bother you, the lice and fleas will. 

P.3 The drainage of the delta has improved, but the plague is still strong.  If you can't [sweat], it can make you blind.

P4. The elderly are few, but it's relative.  The heat makes them self-indulgent and lethargic.  The fertility of the soil makes them lazy.  

P5.  Cairo is the modern [metropolis].  It is surrounded by gates that are locked at night.  It is commanded by a large citadel situated near the approach of the mukattam.  The streets are unpaved, narrow and irregular, more like [lanes]. 

P6.  Cairo can seem crowded at first site, but when viewed from the top of a house or menaret one will see that this isn't true.  Shop-lined streets, apartments above, and have little side-streets, quarters, lanes guarded by manned gates. 

[Illus] Private House in Cairo.

P7.  Houses.  First floor foundation. Made from the soft, stones of the mukattam.  Red [ochre] and white courses.  The second floor projects out about two feet and is supported by corbels or piers.  The bricks are dirty, even when burnt.  Flat plastered roofs.

P8. Ornamental doors, painted doors, holy inscriptions, a superstition to ward off the evil eye.  Iron knocker and wooden lock and mounting stone on the side.   

P9.  Wooden grated windows provide privacy from the street, projecting out on the second and upper floors.  The turned wooden lattice-work, shuts out most of the light, screening the  inhabitants while admitting the air. 

P10.