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had no fear because I didn’t move away too much and would be easy to go back or that Mom
could find me.

Following a lane I found a wide cobbled town square, with fountain, in which infinity of
streets and lanes disembogued that only the irregular form of those Neighbours of Cairo can
justify. There were hundreds of salesmen, slackers, beggars and women with the face covered
by the Chador¸who collected water in jugs made of clay.

I approached to the fountain trying to orientate me, without without noticing that a
group of Arabs who surrounded singing to a snake charmer. This spectacle is very common in
Egypt so that would have not called my attention, but for the unusual fact that when they saw
me, the Arabs went decreasing the tone of the chant until the complete silence. At the
beginning I didn’t warn about this due to the hypnotizer continued playing the flute while the
green eyes of the cobra, hypnotized by the music, seemed to be looking just me. Suddenly the
flautist kpined to the group of quiet Arabs and I, comprehending that something abnormall
was happening, one after another were making prudent steps backwards.

The spell was broken when one of them, doing a hideous yowl, screamed in Arab –The
Sign! Whiel they were signalizing me awkwardly. Was like a signal. All were screaming at the
same time exalted and running towards me with exposed intention to capture me.

A terrible disturbance occurred because I being a child, was running within the crowd
with major velocity, while my chasers were obstaculized by divers hindrances, which they
eliminated by the expeditious system to throw down whatever the crosses in their way.
Fortunatelly the throng was huge and many witnesses of the episode could inform it then to
the Police.

The persecution not lasted too much because the frenetic fanatism that animated those

men multiplied their forces, while my energies were consummating rapidly.

Initially I took a street eventful of merchants, escaping on inverse sense to the one
employed to arrive to the town square, but at the few blocks, trying to elude the crowd of
salesmen and customers, I entered into an alley. This wasn’t straight, but it continued
narrowing more and more, until it turned into a path of one metre wide between the walls of
two Neighborhoods that had advanced since different directions, without respecting the street.

As I was running, the alley seemed freer of obtacles and, therefore, my chasers gained
terrain, until a stone on the uneven ground made me roll defeated. Straightaway I was
surrounded by the exited Arabs who didn’t delay an instant to wrap me with one of their caps
and charge me imprisoned within powerful arms. The impression was huge and unpleasant

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