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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... Hundreds of thousands of Greeks were quite willing to put up with the government of the late Sultan of Turkey to be allowed to trade in Constantinople and the Asia Minor ports . The Egyptian would have prefered to live under the rule of ...
... Hundreds of thousands of Greeks were quite willing to put up with the government of the late Sultan of Turkey to be allowed to trade in Constantinople and the Asia Minor ports . The Egyptian would have prefered to live under the rule of ...
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... HUNDRED - PYLONED THEBES . XXXII . THREE GREAT TEMPLES - ESNA , EDfu , and KOMOMBO 324 · 338 XXXIII . ASSUAN , THE CITY OF THE IDLE WEALTHY 351 XXXIV . THE GREAT DAM OF ASSUAN XXXV . ELEPHANTINE XXXVI . PHILE THE MELTED PEARL . 367 372 ...
... HUNDRED - PYLONED THEBES . XXXII . THREE GREAT TEMPLES - ESNA , EDfu , and KOMOMBO 324 · 338 XXXIII . ASSUAN , THE CITY OF THE IDLE WEALTHY 351 XXXIV . THE GREAT DAM OF ASSUAN XXXV . ELEPHANTINE XXXVI . PHILE THE MELTED PEARL . 367 372 ...
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... hundred years before . It was Saladin who gave Cairo her Citadel ; it was Saladin who founded the first Medressa , or mosque - college , which he attached to the venerable Mosque of Imam Shafyi , now surrounded by the tombs of the ...
... hundred years before . It was Saladin who gave Cairo her Citadel ; it was Saladin who founded the first Medressa , or mosque - college , which he attached to the venerable Mosque of Imam Shafyi , now surrounded by the tombs of the ...
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... hundred years ago had one imitated on a mosque pulpit . Even in his day this cost him a thousand pounds . These Coptic screens are made of old dark wood , whose polished surface is inlaid with discs of ivory , ebony , and mother - of ...
... hundred years ago had one imitated on a mosque pulpit . Even in his day this cost him a thousand pounds . These Coptic screens are made of old dark wood , whose polished surface is inlaid with discs of ivory , ebony , and mother - of ...
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... 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 a mosque of Kait Bey , as high as it is long , with mellow - painted ...
... 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 a mosque of Kait Bey , as high as it is long , with mellow - painted ...
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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