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 11
... garden hall at the end , into the throne - room of Sultan Beybars , who died six hundred years ago . The carved wood throne , from which he administered justice , stands where it stood . Behind that is the hall of the fêtes of the harem ...
... garden hall at the end , into the throne - room of Sultan Beybars , who died six hundred years ago . The carved wood throne , from which he administered justice , stands where it stood . Behind that is the hall of the fêtes of the harem ...
Page 25
... gardens , splendid buildings , grand houses , pure air , high mountains and hills , and it is well - drained country . All good things that anyone wish are found there . The people there are good - bred and well - educated . All things ...
... gardens , splendid buildings , grand houses , pure air , high mountains and hills , and it is well - drained country . All good things that anyone wish are found there . The people there are good - bred and well - educated . All things ...
Page 32
... Gardens . Ramidge offered him his choice of going to prison or taking a good thrashing ; he gratefully accepted the latter , and Ramidge caned him like a schoolboy till he was tired , and sent him to Alexandria . Three days later he ...
... Gardens . Ramidge offered him his choice of going to prison or taking a good thrashing ; he gratefully accepted the latter , and Ramidge caned him like a schoolboy till he was tired , and sent him to Alexandria . Three days later he ...
Page 47
... gardener , and a coachman . My chauffeur comes from the garage . " " Do your servants give you much trouble ? " I asked . " Trouble ? " she answered . " Not so much as they give other people . I go out and scream at them twice a week ...
... gardener , and a coachman . My chauffeur comes from the garage . " " Do your servants give you much trouble ? " I asked . " Trouble ? " she answered . " Not so much as they give other people . I go out and scream at them twice a week ...
Page 51
... gardens are favourite places , and they have been known to breed in great numbers in the cellars of houses . " Three or four weeks are required to perfect the change from the egg to the complete insect . The female carefully selects a ...
... gardens are favourite places , and they have been known to breed in great numbers in the cellars of houses . " Three or four weeks are required to perfect the change from the egg to the complete insect . The female carefully selects a ...
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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