Having mounted his splendid horse, he saluted everyone, bowing gracefully to the crowd on either side. This conduct greatly surprised the people, who, when their previous pashas condescended to walk abroad, had been obliged to bend the knee, and bow the head, scarcely daring to raise their eyes, until the August presence had passed by.

XREF: Builds on loc 59 about pasha reception rituals staging power through shadow and spectacle — here Muhammad Ali deliberately inverts that ritual by bowing to the crowd. Pays off: "Pasha reception rituals staged power through deliberate shadow and spectacle."

Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed…, loc. 681