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 xi
... hands . He may be a book - keeper in a merchant's office or an assistant in a shop , but the business will belong to some one else . The wealth of Egyptians , rich and poor , arises solely from land . One man is lucky enough to own land ...
... hands . He may be a book - keeper in a merchant's office or an assistant in a shop , but the business will belong to some one else . The wealth of Egyptians , rich and poor , arises solely from land . One man is lucky enough to own land ...
Page xxi
... HAND . · Unchanged from the time of Cleopatra . On the road to Heliopolis . PLOUGHING IN THE FAYUM This is called the Virgilian plough in Italy , and in Egypt has been in use since the times of the Pharaohs . It is drawn by Egyptian ...
... HAND . · Unchanged from the time of Cleopatra . On the road to Heliopolis . PLOUGHING IN THE FAYUM This is called the Virgilian plough in Italy , and in Egypt has been in use since the times of the Pharaohs . It is drawn by Egyptian ...
Page xxiii
... hand Colossus is supposed to be " The Vocal Statue of Memnon . " They stood outside the mortuary temple of King Amen - hetep III . , which has now disappeared . At high Nile the land on which they stand is inundated . • 326 THE VALLEY ...
... hand Colossus is supposed to be " The Vocal Statue of Memnon . " They stood outside the mortuary temple of King Amen - hetep III . , which has now disappeared . At high Nile the land on which they stand is inundated . • 326 THE VALLEY ...
Page 6
... hands of the Crusaders . In the mounds of sand heaped upon its ruins by the winds of the desert any one who likes can fossick for the remains of Arab pottery ( all dating from before A.D. 1160 ) , of which such glowing fragments are ...
... hands of the Crusaders . In the mounds of sand heaped upon its ruins by the winds of the desert any one who likes can fossick for the remains of Arab pottery ( all dating from before A.D. 1160 ) , of which such glowing fragments are ...
Page 9
... hands of time and decay into lines of exquisite softness . The Kitchmas mosque , perfect , and of the fifteenth century , is built across the street . As you round it you come on a vision hardly less lovely than the Tombs of the Caliphs ...
... hands of time and decay into lines of exquisite softness . The Kitchmas mosque , perfect , and of the fifteenth century , is built across the street . As you round it you come on a vision hardly less lovely than the Tombs of the Caliphs ...
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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