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 51
... feet rest in pans of petroleum , or whose legs are wrapped with rags soaked in petroleum . 1 Mosquitoes one takes for granted , though strangers grow " The voice of the mosquitoe is still heard in the land and she is occupying general ...
... feet rest in pans of petroleum , or whose legs are wrapped with rags soaked in petroleum . 1 Mosquitoes one takes for granted , though strangers grow " The voice of the mosquitoe is still heard in the land and she is occupying general ...
Page 59
... off our shirts , and stood up and knocked our feet against the seats to shake them out of the bottoms of our trousers . Miss Lorimer went and sat three seats behind us , partly , I The Woes of the Egyptian Housekeeper 59.
... off our shirts , and stood up and knocked our feet against the seats to shake them out of the bottoms of our trousers . Miss Lorimer went and sat three seats behind us , partly , I The Woes of the Egyptian Housekeeper 59.
Page 93
... feet , which that functionary duly received . It afterwards appeared that the vegetables had never been delivered at that station . The station- master's intelligence and zeal , however , were so quickened by the caution he had received ...
... feet , which that functionary duly received . It afterwards appeared that the vegetables had never been delivered at that station . The station- master's intelligence and zeal , however , were so quickened by the caution he had received ...
Page 101
... feet . " He only meant that he was not feeling well . Cromwell Rhodes had a mango - tree in his garden which would not bear any fruit , so he told the head gardener to grub it out and put in a new one . The man was most unwilling to ...
... feet . " He only meant that he was not feeling well . Cromwell Rhodes had a mango - tree in his garden which would not bear any fruit , so he told the head gardener to grub it out and put in a new one . The man was most unwilling to ...
Page 103
... feet on the pillow and a bundle of his master's clothes under his head . R. woke him up with a loud voice , and the servant at once said , " La mush ana " -No , it isn't me . He was not drunk , he merely did not expect his master home ...
... feet on the pillow and a bundle of his master's clothes under his head . R. woke him up with a loud voice , and the servant at once said , " La mush ana " -No , it isn't me . He was not drunk , he merely did not expect his master home ...
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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