Men and women are gathered outside a prison in Cairo as prisoners look out from behind the bars, and a child stands on ledge to look through the window. Wood engraving after J.C. Horsley, 1876.

"Herewith are two more sketches of Egyptian life by our special artist, Mr. J.C. Horsley. We gave some account ot the hardships of convicts last week, and now we illustrate their principal--we may say their only--pleasure, an occasional visit from their friends and relations. Many touching scenes frequently take place in the courtyard which our illustration represents, scenes which, perhaps, are not unfrequent in our own prisons. Still, in England the prisoner's friends know that at any rate justice will be dealt him, and also that, though in durance vile, he is well cared for-that is as far as bodily necessaries are concerned. In Egypt, however, where interest and backsheesh are the prisoner's great advocates, where convicts are herded together in one common cell, and where the authorities occasionally forget to let them out when their sentence is fulfilled, the prisoner's friends, unless they be rich or powerful, must take leave of him with small consolation at heart."—The graphic, op. cit., p. 195