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 xii
... donkey - riding . I also devote several chapters to the eccentricities of the Egyptian Court . The incidents in them were the actual experiences of a very high official and his wife , given me for publication . Not less interesting to ...
... donkey - riding . I also devote several chapters to the eccentricities of the Egyptian Court . The incidents in them were the actual experiences of a very high official and his wife , given me for publication . Not less interesting to ...
Page xiv
... describing that dream , not forgetting the humours of the donkey - boys who conduct you to the Court . DOUGLAS SLADEN . CONTENTS DEDICATION PAGE V PREFACE . THE CALL OF EGYPT xiv Preface ON THE HUMOURS OF EGYPTIAN HOTELS.
... describing that dream , not forgetting the humours of the donkey - boys who conduct you to the Court . DOUGLAS SLADEN . CONTENTS DEDICATION PAGE V PREFACE . THE CALL OF EGYPT xiv Preface ON THE HUMOURS OF EGYPTIAN HOTELS.
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... DONKEY- BOYS XVII . ON THE MOST INTERESTING THINGS TO BUY IN EGYPT 133 143 PART II On the Nile - From Alexandria to Assuan XVIII . LANDING AT ALEXANDRIA I 50 XIX , SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE FORGOTTEN CLEOPATRA 168 XX . THE EGYPTIAN STATE ...
... DONKEY- BOYS XVII . ON THE MOST INTERESTING THINGS TO BUY IN EGYPT 133 143 PART II On the Nile - From Alexandria to Assuan XVIII . LANDING AT ALEXANDRIA I 50 XIX , SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE FORGOTTEN CLEOPATRA 168 XX . THE EGYPTIAN STATE ...
Page xix
... ordinary costume , riding a donkey . FELLAHIN WAITING FOR THE POLICE - COURT TO OPEN AT LUXOR · 44 AT DAMIETTA Forage ass protesting . 45 FACING PAGE FELLAHIN CHILDREN WATCHING THE FOREIGNERS RIDE PAST 54 xix DEDICATION PAGE XV EGYPTIAN'S.
... ordinary costume , riding a donkey . FELLAHIN WAITING FOR THE POLICE - COURT TO OPEN AT LUXOR · 44 AT DAMIETTA Forage ass protesting . 45 FACING PAGE FELLAHIN CHILDREN WATCHING THE FOREIGNERS RIDE PAST 54 xix DEDICATION PAGE XV EGYPTIAN'S.
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... DONKEY - BOYS AT THE GATES OF KARNAK 133 On the left is Joseph , on the right is one of the splendid troopers of the Egyptian Mounted Police on a beautiful white Arab . Behind is the great pylon of Karnak . AN ARAB MARKET IN A PALM ...
... DONKEY - BOYS AT THE GATES OF KARNAK 133 On the left is Joseph , on the right is one of the splendid troopers of the Egyptian Mounted Police on a beautiful white Arab . Behind is the great pylon of Karnak . AN ARAB MARKET IN A PALM ...
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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