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"“After her, Mohammed! but if you strike her with even a feather, she shall become as a stranger to you until you reach Cairo.”"

"I received a letter from him, full of sanguine hopes, dated at Cairo, the fifteenth of November, 1788, the day before he was to set out for the head of the Nile;"

The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo, da Pisa Rusticiano

"The Babylonia of the passage from Ramusio is Cairo,—Babylon of Egypt, the sugar of which was very famous in the Middle Ages."

The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo, da Pisa Rusticiano

"in the Cairo Museum, among ornaments found in the mummy-pits..."

The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo, da Pisa Rusticiano

"On reaching a certain port they load the goods on camels, and carry them a 30 days’ journey by land to the River Nile, where they embark them in small vessels and descend the current to Cairo, and thence by an artificial cut, called Calizene, to Alexandria."

The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo, da Pisa Rusticiano

"A somewhat different arrangement for the same purpose is in use in Cairo, and gives a very peculiar character to the city when seen from a moderate height."

The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo, da Pisa Rusticiano

"…some of the particular wonders of Cairo, such as the slave‐market, the chicken-hatching stoves, and the apples of Paradise, i.e. plantains (49)…"

The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo, da Pisa Rusticiano

"Cairo, ii. 439n; museum at, 424n; ventilators at, 452n"

The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo, da Pisa Rusticiano

"Ahmed Shibab Eddin, who died in Cairo in 1338"

Golden Days
by Carolyn See

"Hal? Can you tell me how she keeps those plants watered? Isn’t she in Cairo now?"

The Sellout
by Paul Beatty

"I knew better than to expect Rome, Nairobi, Cairo, or Kyoto."