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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... halls of the royal mosque founded by En- Nasir and the marble Mosque of Sultan Selim , the gem of sixteenth - century Cairo . The most interesting feature is the well , going back to the times of the Pharaohs , though it may have been ...
... halls of the royal mosque founded by En- Nasir and the marble Mosque of Sultan Selim , the gem of sixteenth - century Cairo . The most interesting feature is the well , going back to the times of the Pharaohs , though it may have been ...
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... hall with old carved benches round its walls which leads into a gracious courtyard , with a fountain like an old Sicilian monastery and a pergola of vines . At its end are a noble flight of steps and a handsome porch opening into a ...
... hall with old carved benches round its walls which leads into a gracious courtyard , with a fountain like an old Sicilian monastery and a pergola of vines . At its end are a noble flight of steps and a handsome porch opening into a ...
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... hall of an emir's palace , hardly longer than its height , with a richly painted roof , and windows with tiny bits of coloured glass set like gems in a delicate filigree of plaster . The sunken floor under the exquisitely graceful dome ...
... hall of an emir's palace , hardly longer than its height , with a richly painted roof , and windows with tiny bits of coloured glass set like gems in a delicate filigree of plaster . The sunken floor under the exquisitely graceful dome ...
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... hall , has three great arches rising to the roof , a recessed doorway , almost as lofty , at the head of the steps which lead up from the court , and a balcony graced with two pavilions of meshrebiya for the harem ladies : its windows ...
... hall , has three great arches rising to the roof , a recessed doorway , almost as lofty , at the head of the steps which lead up from the court , and a balcony graced with two pavilions of meshrebiya for the harem ladies : its windows ...
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... 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 , like ...
... 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 , like ...
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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