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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... enter for the first time a perfect temple of ancient Egypt , with every foot of its vast interior sculptured and painted with the mythologies of gods and men . There are some - and I am one of them - who feel the call of the City of the ...
... enter for the first time a perfect temple of ancient Egypt , with every foot of its vast interior sculptured and painted with the mythologies of gods and men . There are some - and I am one of them - who feel the call of the City of the ...
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... enter for fear of a stab in the darkness , is no longer used . In more tolerant times the church has been given an approach of great beauty . In the high wall near the entrance is a white marble Coptic stoup . You enter an octagonal ...
... enter for fear of a stab in the darkness , is no longer used . In more tolerant times the church has been given an approach of great beauty . In the high wall near the entrance is a white marble Coptic stoup . You enter an octagonal ...
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... 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 , which might , but for its pointed ...
... 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 , which might , but for its pointed ...
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... entering the mosque beside the gate , puts off his shoes . For in the Sukkariya , the broad road spanned by the gate - though it is vulgarised by European haberdashery , you are never out of sight of one of its noble mosques and sebils ...
... entering the mosque beside the gate , puts off his shoes . For in the Sukkariya , the broad road spanned by the gate - though it is vulgarised by European haberdashery , you are never out of sight of one of its noble mosques and sebils ...
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... entered his mouth . The fellah got up at once , but , alas , everything was already in . He then kept it in mind day and night for a few days , during which he grew pale and ill and at last died , a murder of the would - be - killed ...
... entered his mouth . The fellah got up at once , but , alas , everything was already in . He then kept it in mind day and night for a few days , during which he grew pale and ill and at last died , a murder of the would - be - killed ...
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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