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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... chief granaries of the Roman Empire . AN EGYPTIAN COUNTRY HOUSE Much the same as in Cleopatra's time . About an hour's ride from Karnak . · 159 174 · 175 THE CITY OF DAMIETTA ON THE NILE · 194 Which reminds one of the Grand Canal at ...
... chief granaries of the Roman Empire . AN EGYPTIAN COUNTRY HOUSE Much the same as in Cleopatra's time . About an hour's ride from Karnak . · 159 174 · 175 THE CITY OF DAMIETTA ON THE NILE · 194 Which reminds one of the Grand Canal at ...
Page xxiii
... chief Dragoman of Thomas Cook & Son in Egypt . 350 FUZZY - WUZZY 351 The Bisharin and his encampment . THE WITCH OF ASSUAN • · " There was an old woman who lived in a tomb . " SAINT'S TOMB IN THE DESERT BEHIND THE CATARACT HOtel at 364 ...
... chief Dragoman of Thomas Cook & Son in Egypt . 350 FUZZY - WUZZY 351 The Bisharin and his encampment . THE WITCH OF ASSUAN • · " There was an old woman who lived in a tomb . " SAINT'S TOMB IN THE DESERT BEHIND THE CATARACT HOtel at 364 ...
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... chief builder of medieval Cairo , four hundred years ago had one imitated on a mosque pulpit . Even in his day this cost him a thousand pounds . These Coptic screens are made of old dark wood , whose polished surface is inlaid with ...
... chief builder of medieval Cairo , four hundred years ago had one imitated on a mosque pulpit . Even in his day this cost him a thousand pounds . These Coptic screens are made of old dark wood , whose polished surface is inlaid with ...
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... chief descendant of the Prophet lived . His palace is quite a castle , which has a selamlik as large as a mosque , with its lofty walls inlaid with old Persian tiles , and a range of superb oriels , screened by the richest meshrebiya ...
... chief descendant of the Prophet lived . His palace is quite a castle , which has a selamlik as large as a mosque , with its lofty walls inlaid with old Persian tiles , and a range of superb oriels , screened by the richest meshrebiya ...
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... chief Mohammedan country , and to see " the good Sultan " ( who has recently been de- posed because Turkey could not tolerate his vices any longer ) . Syria was likewise acceptable in the main because it belonged to a Mohammedan ...
... chief Mohammedan country , and to see " the good Sultan " ( who has recently been de- posed because Turkey could not tolerate his vices any longer ) . Syria was likewise acceptable in the main because it belonged to a Mohammedan ...
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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