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 7
... columns , restored in the fifteenth century , give its liwán a noble effect . There is no better way to enter the ... columns , the suggestion of a Christian slave , for otherwise every church in Egypt would have been robbed of the ...
... columns , restored in the fifteenth century , give its liwán a noble effect . There is no better way to enter the ... columns , the suggestion of a Christian slave , for otherwise every church in Egypt would have been robbed of the ...
Page 14
... columns of the daily newspapers - despair not of finding what you call a wakeful assistant who may candidly join his cry with your's : dare and fear not any bit of critical ideas , but reality and truth - do favour please and be a good ...
... columns of the daily newspapers - despair not of finding what you call a wakeful assistant who may candidly join his cry with your's : dare and fear not any bit of critical ideas , but reality and truth - do favour please and be a good ...
Page 39
... columns of an Egyptian newspaper . The Egyptian maidservant is excellent , but you cannot get one unless you are married . In the Sudan , as in Japan , the English bachelor may have a temporary wife , who is also his servant , without ...
... columns of an Egyptian newspaper . The Egyptian maidservant is excellent , but you cannot get one unless you are married . In the Sudan , as in Japan , the English bachelor may have a temporary wife , who is also his servant , without ...
Page 158
... columns of granite . The Hypogeum of Anfushi , near the Khedive's palace , another Roman building , is even less interesting ; but it serves to show the debased style of the tombs of Roman Egypt . On the other hand , the ruins round ...
... columns of granite . The Hypogeum of Anfushi , near the Khedive's palace , another Roman building , is even less interesting ; but it serves to show the debased style of the tombs of Roman Egypt . On the other hand , the ruins round ...
Page 159
... column of red granite in his honour , when they had realised that it would not offend Cæsar , but please his magnanimous soul . The granite is of the best quality , highly polished , elegant ... columns which con- Landing at Alexandria 159.
... column of red granite in his honour , when they had realised that it would not offend Cæsar , but please his magnanimous soul . The granite is of the best quality , highly polished , elegant ... columns which con- Landing at Alexandria 159.
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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