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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... built of mud . From their houses we learn little except the antiquity of the vaulted ceiling . All we know of their dwellings we learn from their tombs , when they had left off building mountains of stone , and taken to hewing ...
... built of mud . From their houses we learn little except the antiquity of the vaulted ceiling . All we know of their dwellings we learn from their tombs , when they had left off building mountains of stone , and taken to hewing ...
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... built in the seven- teenth century , and the Mosque of Mohammed Bey , built in the eighteenth . Its appearance from below is altogether mediæval , though the two principal features , the Bab - el- Azab and the Mosque of Mehemet Ali ...
... built in the seven- teenth century , and the Mosque of Mohammed Bey , built in the eighteenth . Its appearance from below is altogether mediæval , though the two principal features , the Bab - el- Azab and the Mosque of Mehemet Ali ...
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... built a superb palace , which lasted till the present dynasty replaced it with their mosque , and a palace even worse in taste than the interior of the mosque . Its massive vaults and foundations may yet be seen . The most beautiful ...
... built a superb palace , which lasted till the present dynasty replaced it with their mosque , and a palace even worse in taste than the interior of the mosque . Its massive vaults and foundations may yet be seen . The most beautiful ...
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... built right over their streets as if they were bees , though now they are beginning to leave a little more of them open to the sky . And to reach their churches you always have to dive under a house . These churches are very , very ...
... built right over their streets as if they were bees , though now they are beginning to leave a little more of them open to the sky . And to reach their churches you always have to dive under a house . These churches are very , very ...
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... built on to a Roman bastion , is among the most beautiful churches in the world ; it can be mentioned in the same breath as St. Mark's at Venice or the Royal Chapel at Palermo , for the richness and perfect harmony of its decora- tions ...
... built on to a Roman bastion , is among the most beautiful churches in the world ; it can be mentioned in the same breath as St. Mark's at Venice or the Royal Chapel at Palermo , for the richness and perfect harmony of its decora- tions ...
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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