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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... hour's ride from Karnak . · 159 174 · 175 THE CITY OF DAMIETTA ON THE NILE · 194 Which reminds one of the Grand Canal at Venice , and has old palaces in the Venetian style . DAMIETTA 195 A mosque , a saint's tomb , and houses hidden ...
... hour's ride from Karnak . · 159 174 · 175 THE CITY OF DAMIETTA ON THE NILE · 194 Which reminds one of the Grand Canal at Venice , and has old palaces in the Venetian style . DAMIETTA 195 A mosque , a saint's tomb , and houses hidden ...
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... hour , and was a very much better servant for ever after . Berberine servants are really very good cooks , but they steal your clothes . The Egyptian suffragi is original in one way he prefers to wear his shirt outside his trousers . If ...
... hour , and was a very much better servant for ever after . Berberine servants are really very good cooks , but they steal your clothes . The Egyptian suffragi is original in one way he prefers to wear his shirt outside his trousers . If ...
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... hour . Many telegraph offices in Egypt are open all night , and the suffragi's desire to go to bed is the only closing hour enforced at hotels . The law may have ordained one , which is more honoured in the breach than the observance ...
... hour . Many telegraph offices in Egypt are open all night , and the suffragi's desire to go to bed is the only closing hour enforced at hotels . The law may have ordained one , which is more honoured in the breach than the observance ...
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... hour's free use of the tram as a waiting - room . Residents , however little they may be able to afford it , certainly do use cabs for everything ; and this soon mounts up , though cabs , before the recent rise in fares , were cheap ...
... hour's free use of the tram as a waiting - room . Residents , however little they may be able to afford it , certainly do use cabs for everything ; and this soon mounts up , though cabs , before the recent rise in fares , were cheap ...
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... hour unless he is going to be standing still all the time , while you are shopping or paying a call ; and you most ... hours . " He had been terse in his esti- protesting . mate of society in Egypt . " Society 44 Queer Things About Egypt.
... hour unless he is going to be standing still all the time , while you are shopping or paying a call ; and you most ... hours . " He had been terse in his esti- protesting . mate of society in Egypt . " Society 44 Queer Things About Egypt.
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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