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Photograph is in a book with a description beneath ; printed description: "(Leviticus, xvi.)--Change is a characteristic of
modern civilization. But in the civilization of Egypt, customs and habits have continued to the present time very much as
they were in the days of Moses. The scene we give above of the water carriers of Egypt is one common to the country in all
ages of its history. The water carrier is called the sakka. He plies his trade in the streets of Cairo. He carries a goat-skin
upon his shoulder, and goes from house to house, and makes the bare means of subsistence by supplying the people with water.
During eight months of the year he brings the water all the way from the Nile, but during the remaining four months, while
the river is rising, he obtains his supply from the canals which intersect Cairo. These sakkas sell water also to people
on the streets. The thirsty passer-by receives his draught in a brazen chalice, and for this he often bestows a small copper
coin on the dispenser." See 5341BAI/LVii67CAJS (Voyager # 361589)
Several men on a Cairo street; the man in the foreground carries a small bowl and a water container on his back
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