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 xix
... camels carrying stones for building . AT LUXOR sun . Women with their shawls over their head - burdens to protect them from the 36 EXIT EGYPT 37 Fellah in his ordinary costume , riding a donkey . FELLAHIN WAITING FOR THE POLICE - COURT ...
... camels carrying stones for building . AT LUXOR sun . Women with their shawls over their head - burdens to protect them from the 36 EXIT EGYPT 37 Fellah in his ordinary costume , riding a donkey . FELLAHIN WAITING FOR THE POLICE - COURT ...
Page xx
... CAMEL GROUP 68 Arab and his child riding along the road from Karnak to Luxor . 69 EGYPTIAN WOMAN RIDING She is holding her shawl over her face with her teeth to conceal it as she passes the man on her left . On the road from Karnak to ...
... CAMEL GROUP 68 Arab and his child riding along the road from Karnak to Luxor . 69 EGYPTIAN WOMAN RIDING She is holding her shawl over her face with her teeth to conceal it as she passes the man on her left . On the road from Karnak to ...
Page xxii
... camel a lady needs the assistance of at least three people . The camel generally roars all the time . A ROMÁN CASTLE IN THE GREAT OASIS OF THE LIBYAN DESERT Which is Herodotus's Island of the Blest . 292 DOUM PALM AND WELL IN THE ROMAN ...
... camel a lady needs the assistance of at least three people . The camel generally roars all the time . A ROMÁN CASTLE IN THE GREAT OASIS OF THE LIBYAN DESERT Which is Herodotus's Island of the Blest . 292 DOUM PALM AND WELL IN THE ROMAN ...
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... camel generally roars all the time. A ROMAN CASTLE IN THE GREAT OASIS OF THE LIBYAN DESERT . 292 Which is Herodotus's Island of the Blest. DOUM PALM AND WELL IN THE ROMAN CASTLE OF THE GREAT OASIS . 292 ARAB SALUTATIONS . . . . . . 293 ...
... camel generally roars all the time. A ROMAN CASTLE IN THE GREAT OASIS OF THE LIBYAN DESERT . 292 Which is Herodotus's Island of the Blest. DOUM PALM AND WELL IN THE ROMAN CASTLE OF THE GREAT OASIS . 292 ARAB SALUTATIONS . . . . . . 293 ...
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... camels in the desert and how to run by the dromedary . ' " M. YASSIME . " " There are many places in the world which are good for health and easy for man to gain money . Syria is one of those healthy places , its weather is neither hot ...
... camels in the desert and how to run by the dromedary . ' " M. YASSIME . " " There are many places in the world which are good for health and easy for man to gain money . Syria is one of those healthy places , its weather is neither hot ...
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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