Notes On a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo

A drive to Belem is the regular route practised by the traveller who has to make only a short stay, and accordingly a couple of carriages were provided for our party, and we were driven through the long merry street of Belem, peopled by endless strings of mules,--by thousands of gallegos, with water-barrels on their shoulders, or lounging by the fountains to hire,--by the Lisbon and Belem omnibuses, with four mules,