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A Drive Round Cairo 13
Oprea, the Hotel Continental and the Esbekiya Gardens.
It is not really so central as the Abdin Palace, geographically
speaking, but it is at the crossing of the principal routes.
I.-EUROPEANISED CAIRO.
I. The Ismailiya Quarter: the District of the Foreign Hotels,
Shops, Business Offices, and Chief Residences
The first quarter of Cairo you drive round takes very little
time ; it is the smallest, bounded by the Sharia Kasr-el-Nil,
the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, the Ismailiya Canal,
and the Sharia Kamel, which changes its name to the Sharia
Nubar Pasha as it approaches the railway station. This is
the European business quarter. In it are situated the Cairo
Head Offices of the Suez Canal Company, on the last named
street ; and the office of Thomas Cook & Son, Shepheard's
Hotel and the Hotel Continental on the Sharia Kamel. The
Savoy Hotel, the Consulates General of France and Russia,
and the three chief banks are all situated on or just off
the Sharia Kasr-el-Nil ; while the Turf Club, the Hotel
d'Angleterre, the British Consulate Offices, the English Church,
and the Offices of the Eastern Telegraph Company are all
situated in the centre of the block ; and the Abbas Theatre,
not very far behind Cook's Office. The best foreign shops
are in the Sharia Kamel, the Sharia EI-Maghrabi, the Sharia
Manakh, the Sharia Bulak, and the Sharia Kasr-el-Nil, all
in this quarter, and most of the other foreign business houses
are near them. In other words, this is the quarter of Cairo
where most of the well-off foreigners live and move and do
their shopping, called vaguely the Ismailiya quarter.
II. Route for Seeing the Ismailiya Quarter
The best way to see it in a carriage is to drive from the
Sharia Kamel to the Sharia Suleiman Pasha down the Sharia
Bulak and up the Sharia El-Maghradi, down the Sharia
Manakh and up the Sharia Kasr-el-Nil, finishing up with a