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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... fathers . I dilated upon the Egyptian boy's ideas of discipline , honour , and sport in my book , " Egypt and the English , " but I reserved the flowers of his composition for this volume , so I borrowed these essays from my friend ...
... fathers . I dilated upon the Egyptian boy's ideas of discipline , honour , and sport in my book , " Egypt and the English , " but I reserved the flowers of his composition for this volume , so I borrowed these essays from my friend ...
Page 17
... father will send him to a kuttab , in which he will stay about a year . Then if the father is poor he will send his son to a workshop to learn some arts ; but if the father is rich he will send his son to the schools to learn the ...
... father will send him to a kuttab , in which he will stay about a year . Then if the father is poor he will send his son to a workshop to learn some arts ; but if the father is rich he will send his son to the schools to learn the ...
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... father sends him to the Kuttab , where he knows how to write and read well . After the Kuttab his father sends him to school and obtains the last certificate he might be an avocate or something else , or he gows to El Azhar where he ...
... father sends him to the Kuttab , where he knows how to write and read well . After the Kuttab his father sends him to school and obtains the last certificate he might be an avocate or something else , or he gows to El Azhar where he ...
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... father and his relative with money , if they were poor . After he enjoys in wealth and health , he married and became a father of a family . " NAIM YOUSEF HASSAN . " " When a boy is born he is well looked after by his nurses and parents ...
... father and his relative with money , if they were poor . After he enjoys in wealth and health , he married and became a father of a family . " NAIM YOUSEF HASSAN . " " When a boy is born he is well looked after by his nurses and parents ...
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Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. that his father sends him to schools , and if his father is a poor one , he sends him to any work to be an artificial . Both the learned one and the artificial will follow their work till they are able to ...
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. that his father sends him to schools , and if his father is a poor one , he sends him to any work to be an artificial . Both the learned one and the artificial will follow their work till they are able to ...
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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