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 32
... brought any action for wrongful imprisonment , or I should have heard of it . On the next morning , when Ramidge went round to the garage , there was Mustapha busily cleaning the car , and he had bought a new motor - horn as a present ...
... brought any action for wrongful imprisonment , or I should have heard of it . On the next morning , when Ramidge went round to the garage , there was Mustapha busily cleaning the car , and he had bought a new motor - horn as a present ...
Page 55
... brought it , a basketful at a time . " 19 This might have been magnificent , but it was not the way to carry war into the camp of an Egyptian . He probably took the coal back , not to the engine , but to a friend who would sell it for ...
... brought it , a basketful at a time . " 19 This might have been magnificent , but it was not the way to carry war into the camp of an Egyptian . He probably took the coal back , not to the engine , but to a friend who would sell it for ...
Page 57
... brought £ 60 with him , and said : " Will you take this of me ? " He meant that she was to take care of it for him . She consented and said , " I had better give you a receipt . He said , " No ; all right with you ; all people always ...
... brought £ 60 with him , and said : " Will you take this of me ? " He meant that she was to take care of it for him . She consented and said , " I had better give you a receipt . He said , " No ; all right with you ; all people always ...
Page 62
... brought the German girl vol - au - vent , when she wished for roast beef , so she threw it against the wall . The cook - man was heart - broken . The vol - au - vent was probably a love- gage . This man's weakness was his sweet - tooth ...
... brought the German girl vol - au - vent , when she wished for roast beef , so she threw it against the wall . The cook - man was heart - broken . The vol - au - vent was probably a love- gage . This man's weakness was his sweet - tooth ...
Page 65
... brought before him , both he and the trooper in charge of the prisoner address the villain in affectionate tones as ' Oh , my brother ! ' In Egypt the man in authority , though he may use frantic language and bully a subordinate one ...
... brought before him , both he and the trooper in charge of the prisoner address the villain in affectionate tones as ' Oh , my brother ! ' In Egypt the man in authority , though he may use frantic language and bully a subordinate one ...
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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