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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... effects , are little less marvellous than the tombs , some of them as long as a great cathedral , hewn into the heart of the close white limestone , as finely grained as marble , and frescoed from end to end with the elaborate imagery ...
... effects , are little less marvellous than the tombs , some of them as long as a great cathedral , hewn into the heart of the close white limestone , as finely grained as marble , and frescoed from end to end with the elaborate imagery ...
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... effect . The Mo'allaka is large for a Coptic church , especially when you consider the character of its decorations , for it is lined all round with the most perfect Coptic screens . Kait Bey , the chief builder of medieval Cairo , four ...
... effect . The Mo'allaka is large for a Coptic church , especially when you consider the character of its decorations , for it is lined all round with the most perfect Coptic screens . Kait Bey , the chief builder of medieval Cairo , four ...
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... effect . There is no better way to enter the city of Ibn Tulun , the second part of the medieval city , than by walking over the mounds of Fustat , a mountainous desert in miniature , keeping on your right the aqueduct of Saladin ...
... effect . There is no better way to enter the city of Ibn Tulun , the second part of the medieval city , than by walking over the mounds of Fustat , a mountainous desert in miniature , keeping on your right the aqueduct of Saladin ...
Page 33
... effects to the Berberine eye . They lived together . Perkins was very gentle with their Berberine ; Berkeley threw the eggs at him if they were not sufficiently cooked , or opened the teapot and shook its contents over him when he made ...
... effects to the Berberine eye . They lived together . Perkins was very gentle with their Berberine ; Berkeley threw the eggs at him if they were not sufficiently cooked , or opened the teapot and shook its contents over him when he made ...
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... effect on gardeners . It is no wonder that even the Egyptian Nationalist has no desire that the post of engine - driver should be given to natives . R. left a native in charge of an engine while it was taking in water . He got playing ...
... effect on gardeners . It is no wonder that even the Egyptian Nationalist has no desire that the post of engine - driver should be given to natives . R. left a native in charge of an engine while it was taking in water . He got playing ...
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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