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 13
... coming year : have the kindness as to look notionally and attentively at thy poor needed subject whom I supposed thou tyrannized and oppressed over . Oh , Mine tremulous hand just stop shaking , I pray , and firmly hold the glow- worm ...
... coming year : have the kindness as to look notionally and attentively at thy poor needed subject whom I supposed thou tyrannized and oppressed over . Oh , Mine tremulous hand just stop shaking , I pray , and firmly hold the glow- worm ...
Page 15
... coming year are to enter your schools ' gates , but , few influently moneyed students , whilst the others who are poor and umoneyed students can be kindly welcomed by national schools and colleges which , all the world aware , are more ...
... coming year are to enter your schools ' gates , but , few influently moneyed students , whilst the others who are poor and umoneyed students can be kindly welcomed by national schools and colleges which , all the world aware , are more ...
Page 23
... coming I am going to see my home , where my old family is , and live among them some months and then come back to Egypt , as I grow a good doctor and a chief rich one , I shall leave for America , because she is a beautiful country ...
... coming I am going to see my home , where my old family is , and live among them some months and then come back to Egypt , as I grow a good doctor and a chief rich one , I shall leave for America , because she is a beautiful country ...
Page 24
... coming and leaving back again is to enlarge my thoughts , as One is not created to be as well as a donkey . " Mos . EL MAHDY . " The deserts are Everyone wishes to live in the open air . the places where the open air founds . The ...
... coming and leaving back again is to enlarge my thoughts , as One is not created to be as well as a donkey . " Mos . EL MAHDY . " The deserts are Everyone wishes to live in the open air . the places where the open air founds . The ...
Page 36
... coming back late . Ramidge discovered from the police that there never had been a murder on that road , though they could not be sure about the afrit . An Egyptian will believe anything in the way of a superstition . Egyptian suffragis ...
... coming back late . Ramidge discovered from the police that there never had been a murder on that road , though they could not be sure about the afrit . An Egyptian will believe anything in the way of a superstition . Egyptian suffragis ...
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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