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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... face with her teeth to conceal it as she passes the man on her left . On the road from Karnak to Luxor . AN ARAB HORSEMAN IN THE FAYUM The village in the background is Ebshawai . THE PROCESSION OF EGYPT • • Fellahin riding in from ...
... face with her teeth to conceal it as she passes the man on her left . On the road from Karnak to Luxor . AN ARAB HORSEMAN IN THE FAYUM The village in the background is Ebshawai . THE PROCESSION OF EGYPT • • Fellahin riding in from ...
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... face before his fellow servants . While the land - boom was on , the result was disastrous . But now that so many people have been ruined , and so many others have gone out of the town to Zeitoun , and the Skeleton City , and other ...
... face before his fellow servants . While the land - boom was on , the result was disastrous . But now that so many people have been ruined , and so many others have gone out of the town to Zeitoun , and the Skeleton City , and other ...
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... face an English winter , who go to Egypt so often that they almost count as residents . From one of them , a wealthy old lady with an acid tongue , I learned a good deal about Cairo Society . The mud with which she bespattered its ...
... face an English winter , who go to Egypt so often that they almost count as residents . From one of them , a wealthy old lady with an acid tongue , I learned a good deal about Cairo Society . The mud with which she bespattered its ...
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... face . She laughed so that the flood of vitality came back , which reminds one of a story which a well - known author tells of himself . The cherished pig of one of his parishioners was dying , and the old woman begged and prayed him to ...
... face . She laughed so that the flood of vitality came back , which reminds one of a story which a well - known author tells of himself . The cherished pig of one of his parishioners was dying , and the old woman begged and prayed him to ...
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... face of resistance . Another time a train was going along a line , when the driver saw a string of camels roped together , walking along the line in front of them . The train whistled and whistled , but the camel - driver for a long ...
... face of resistance . Another time a train was going along a line , when the driver saw a string of camels roped together , walking along the line in front of them . The train whistled and whistled , but the camel - driver for a long ...
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