Queer Things about EgyptHurst & blackett, Limited, 1911 - 428 pages This book is filled with varied information about Egypt. Everything is touched upon—the people, their customs, and manner of writing English, descriptions of scenery, history and social conditions—in the manner of a well informed traveler willing to tell all he knows. 1t is an entertaining book, and one which a visitor to Egypt could hardly afford to be without, especially the seekers of recreation in perusing passages of sprightly talk about things new and old, maintained by a man who is likely to have cheered many a table and fireside by his traveler's tales. |
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... SOCIETY 46 V. THE WOES OF THE EGYPTIAN HOUSEKEEPER . VI . MORE ABOUT AGENORIA'S SERVAnts . 550 50 VII . DOING BUSINESS WITH EGYPTIANS VIII . THE PASHA • IX . THE NAUGHTY PRINCESS 61 65 78 82 СКАР . X. CHIPS FROM THE COURT XI . THE XV.
... SOCIETY 46 V. THE WOES OF THE EGYPTIAN HOUSEKEEPER . VI . MORE ABOUT AGENORIA'S SERVAnts . 550 50 VII . DOING BUSINESS WITH EGYPTIANS VIII . THE PASHA • IX . THE NAUGHTY PRINCESS 61 65 78 82 СКАР . X. CHIPS FROM THE COURT XI . THE XV.
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... Agenoria had to banish her dogs to the roof , which was the only place the ticks did not like . If she walked twenty yards from her house with any of her dogs they got covered with ticks again . No dog can live at the Delta Barrage ...
... Agenoria had to banish her dogs to the roof , which was the only place the ticks did not like . If she walked twenty yards from her house with any of her dogs they got covered with ticks again . No dog can live at the Delta Barrage ...
Page 54
... Agenoria not only admired his grit , but she told her servants once for all that she would not have any cruelty going on in her house . The father was so mad with rage that the other servants had to hold him to prevent him from ...
... Agenoria not only admired his grit , but she told her servants once for all that she would not have any cruelty going on in her house . The father was so mad with rage that the other servants had to hold him to prevent him from ...
Page 54
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. HELIOPOLIS , THE ATHENS OF THE ANCIENTS . The avenue on the site of the city wall . as the ending of it . For , when Agenoria. P. 55 ]
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. HELIOPOLIS , THE ATHENS OF THE ANCIENTS . The avenue on the site of the city wall . as the ending of it . For , when Agenoria. P. 55 ]
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... Agenoria was stony - hearted , however ; she knew the Egyp- tian's tricks far too well to want to have one in England . She had a narrow escape of having one all the same . For , long after they had settled in London , they had a letter ...
... Agenoria was stony - hearted , however ; she knew the Egyp- tian's tricks far too well to want to have one in England . She had a narrow escape of having one all the same . For , long after they had settled in London , they had a letter ...
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Abûkir Abydos Agenoria Alexandria ancient ancient Egypt ANGELES antique Antony Arab asked Assuan bakshish bank bazar beautiful Berberine blue built Cæsar Cairo CALIFORN called camels canal Cataract Hotel charming Cleopatra colonnades colour columns cook Cook's Coptic dahabeah Damietta Denderah Der-el-Bahari desert donkey donkey-boys dragoman Edfu Egyptian English Fayum feet fellahin French galabeah garden Greek humours hundred Italian Joseph Julius Cæsar Karnak Khedive King ladies lake land LIBRARY live look Luxor mediæval Mehemet Ali meshrebiya miles minarets Mohammed Mohammedan mosque mummy native never night Nile oasis Osiris palace palm groves Pasha Pharaohs photographs piastres picturesque police Ptolemies pylon railway Rameses Ramidge rich riding river Roman roof Rosetta round ruins sand servants shillings side steamer Sudan suffragi tarbooshes temple Thebes thing tombs took tourists Upper Egypt village walls women