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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... bank at Luxor , with the hills of Thebes in the background . THE TEMPLE OF PTAH AT KARNAK , WHERE THE MOON SHINES ON THE IMAGE OF THE GODDESS SEKKET . This is the image which the fellahin think is an ogre who devours children . A NILE ...
... bank at Luxor , with the hills of Thebes in the background . THE TEMPLE OF PTAH AT KARNAK , WHERE THE MOON SHINES ON THE IMAGE OF THE GODDESS SEKKET . This is the image which the fellahin think is an ogre who devours children . A NILE ...
Page xxii
... bank at Luxor, with the hills of Thebes in the background. THE TEMPLE OF PTAH AT KARNAK, WHERE THE MOON S1-IINES ON THE IMAGE OF THE GODDESS SEKKET . . . . . 310 This is the image which the fellahin think is an ogre who devours children ...
... bank at Luxor, with the hills of Thebes in the background. THE TEMPLE OF PTAH AT KARNAK, WHERE THE MOON S1-IINES ON THE IMAGE OF THE GODDESS SEKKET . . . . . 310 This is the image which the fellahin think is an ogre who devours children ...
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... banks of the Nile , between Assuan and Wady Halfa . Suffragis in Cairo generally wear white galabeahs with red tarbooshes , but particular people prefer a white turban , very big , to a tarboosh , for real blacks . Every servant until ...
... banks of the Nile , between Assuan and Wady Halfa . Suffragis in Cairo generally wear white galabeahs with red tarbooshes , but particular people prefer a white turban , very big , to a tarboosh , for real blacks . Every servant until ...
Page 68
... bank ; he stuck in the mud and was in imminent danger of being drowned . R. and a gang of men flew to pull him out . Stop ! " cried the policeman , running up breathless , " I must take a procés verbal before anything else is done . " R ...
... bank ; he stuck in the mud and was in imminent danger of being drowned . R. and a gang of men flew to pull him out . Stop ! " cried the policeman , running up breathless , " I must take a procés verbal before anything else is done . " R ...
Page 74
... his clerk's pocket . As he knew that he had had twenty new two - piastre pieces in his box , and some of the money was still in the little roll in which you get it from Egyptian banks , R. identified it 74 Queer Things About Egypt.
... his clerk's pocket . As he knew that he had had twenty new two - piastre pieces in his box , and some of the money was still in the little roll in which you get it from Egyptian banks , R. identified it 74 Queer Things About Egypt.
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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