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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... better than that of the Brighton Pavilion . The Bab - el - Azab , inside , shows less of the cloven foot of modern cheapness . And this historic gateway admits the wayfarer to a true bit of the Middle Ages - a narrow , wind- ing ...
... better than that of the Brighton Pavilion . The Bab - el - Azab , inside , shows less of the cloven foot of modern cheapness . And this historic gateway admits the wayfarer to a true bit of the Middle Ages - a narrow , wind- ing ...
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... better armed and more warlike chivalry of the Crusades . It was then that Saladin projected his Citadel , which was impregnable till the invention of artillery . The Cairo which is still a medi- æval city with antique mosques and ...
... better armed and more warlike chivalry of the Crusades . It was then that Saladin projected his Citadel , which was impregnable till the invention of artillery . The Cairo which is still a medi- æval city with antique mosques and ...
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... better way to enter the city of Ibn Tulun , the second part of the medieval city , than by walking over the mounds of Fustat , a mountainous desert in miniature , keeping on your right the aqueduct of Saladin , which might , but for its ...
... better way to enter the city of Ibn Tulun , the second part of the medieval city , than by walking over the mounds of Fustat , a mountainous desert in miniature , keeping on your right the aqueduct of Saladin , which might , but for its ...
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... better in teaching and instructing than yours , for it collected most of your wise olden good fitted teachers whom wearied your service . " I am , " Sir , " Yours , etc. , " S. AWNY . " TANTA . " This is how the Indictment impressed the ...
... better in teaching and instructing than yours , for it collected most of your wise olden good fitted teachers whom wearied your service . " I am , " Sir , " Yours , etc. , " S. AWNY . " TANTA . " This is how the Indictment impressed the ...
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... better and so much better admin- istered than those of other countries , or because it had such a beautiful climate - its climate in reality being on a par with its institutions . Gradually it leaked out that they wanted to go to Turkey ...
... better and so much better admin- istered than those of other countries , or because it had such a beautiful climate - its climate in reality being on a par with its institutions . Gradually it leaked out that they wanted to go to Turkey ...
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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