...painted carts, called arabahs, drawn by buffaloes, in which women, muffled up in the Turkish fashion, occasionally take the air in the suburbs, and which...by day are the cries of bread, fruits, sweetmeats, and sherbet, carried in a large wooden tray on the head of an itinerant vender j and, at intervals,...

...streets; for there are no wheeled vehicles in the city, except a very few painted carts, called arabahs, drawn by buffaloes, in which women occasionally take the air in the suburbs, and which go only at a foot-pace. The contrast is still more strongly marked at night. By ten o'clock every human voice...

...European on his arrival, nothing surprises him more than the silence that pervades so large a capital. The only sounds he hears by day are the cries of bread, fruits, sweetmeats, or sherbet, carried in a largo wooden tray on the head of an itinerant vendor, and at intervals the barking of the dogs, disturbed...

...for there are no wheeled vehicles in the city, except a very few painted carts — called arabahs — drawn by buffaloes, in which women occasionally take...of bread, fruits, sweetmeats, or sherbet, carried on a large wooden tray on the head of an itinerant vender, and at intervals the barking of dogs disturbed...