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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Page 8
... Bazar of the Armourers , starting by Sultan Hassan's mosque , the most majestic in Cairo ; the Sharia Serougiya , a little to the left of this , and the Sharia - el - Magar , leading down from the shoulder of the Citadel hill . All of ...
... Bazar of the Armourers , starting by Sultan Hassan's mosque , the most majestic in Cairo ; the Sharia Serougiya , a little to the left of this , and the Sharia - el - Magar , leading down from the shoulder of the Citadel hill . All of ...
Page 9
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. Bazar of the Tentmakers , who embroider the awnings which render Mohammedan festivals so gay . At its end is the Bab - es - Suweyla . The Sûk of the Armourers conducts you through a magnificent old street ...
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. Bazar of the Tentmakers , who embroider the awnings which render Mohammedan festivals so gay . At its end is the Bab - es - Suweyla . The Sûk of the Armourers conducts you through a magnificent old street ...
Page 10
... bazar , with its painted chests and leopard skins , and turn up to the vast and ancient precincts of El - Azhar , the thousand - year - old university of all Islam . Step across the Muski , and for a while the spell is broken , for ...
... bazar , with its painted chests and leopard skins , and turn up to the vast and ancient precincts of El - Azhar , the thousand - year - old university of all Islam . Step across the Muski , and for a while the spell is broken , for ...
Page 117
... Bazar , where fuzzy - wuzzy sits on the ground between tall heaps of gaily coloured grain , under sheds of African thatch . Both Khartûm and Luxor are richer in hotel humours than Assuan . The Grand Hotel at Khartûm has distinct ...
... Bazar , where fuzzy - wuzzy sits on the ground between tall heaps of gaily coloured grain , under sheds of African thatch . Both Khartûm and Luxor are richer in hotel humours than Assuan . The Grand Hotel at Khartûm has distinct ...
Page 145
... Bazar . I saw a rich young Foreigner once who had had her ankles fitted with the kind the better - class Egyptians wear , of heavy solid silver , covered with a kind of filagree pattern , which are riveted on through a kind of second ...
... Bazar . I saw a rich young Foreigner once who had had her ankles fitted with the kind the better - class Egyptians wear , of heavy solid silver , covered with a kind of filagree pattern , which are riveted on through a kind of second ...
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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