1 P.M.
But I can not allow myself to write a description of Cairo . How the dervishes there spun and shook , going through their holy exercises with admirable perseverance , that I must tell . This occurred towards the latter end of the winter , when Wilkinson and Bertram had nearly completed their sojourn in Cairo . Not but what the dervishes had roared out their monotonous prayer to Allah , duly every Friday , at 1 P.M. , with as much precision as a service in one of your own cathedrals ; but our friends had put the thing off , as hardly being of much interest , and at last went there when they had only one Friday left for the performance . I believe that , as a rule , a Mahomedan hates a Christian : regarding him merely as Christian , he certainly does so . Had any tidings of confirmed success on the part of the rebels in India reached the furthermost parts of the Turkish empire , no Christian life would have been safe there . The horrid outrage perpetrated at Jaffa , and the massacre at Jeddah , sufficiently show us what we might have expected .