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
... kind of gentleman you could trust with the distribution of water and justice . The evil of communication with Levantines has made the town Egyptian hopelessly corrupt . If he could be kept from evil communications he would become a good ...
... kind of gentleman you could trust with the distribution of water and justice . The evil of communication with Levantines has made the town Egyptian hopelessly corrupt . If he could be kept from evil communications he would become a good ...
Page 21
... kind for everyone . When he was 6 years of age his father enter him in a primary school and after finishing the primary lessons , he enter him a Secondary school , and when he won the Secondary certificate he enter him a High School ...
... kind for everyone . When he was 6 years of age his father enter him in a primary school and after finishing the primary lessons , he enter him a Secondary school , and when he won the Secondary certificate he enter him a High School ...
Page 26
... KIND SIR , " As I am polite , and have not done anything in all the days that passed from the beginning of the year , I am very sorry to be punished in these day , ' The day which is called by all the days of the pupils ' plot . I think ...
... KIND SIR , " As I am polite , and have not done anything in all the days that passed from the beginning of the year , I am very sorry to be punished in these day , ' The day which is called by all the days of the pupils ' plot . I think ...
Page 27
... kind approval . I ask the Allmighty to sapper your life . " Your obedient servent , " SCANDER CHOUKRY . " " MADAME C. RHODES , Esq . " Dear Sir , " Sorry to hear that you are unwell , but I hope it will soon pass away , I sent you this ...
... kind approval . I ask the Allmighty to sapper your life . " Your obedient servent , " SCANDER CHOUKRY . " " MADAME C. RHODES , Esq . " Dear Sir , " Sorry to hear that you are unwell , but I hope it will soon pass away , I sent you this ...
Page 29
... kind of coal I send to your honourable haus , and how is Criblet ? Because I saw the report yesterday that the coal whiche I supply with slake , never me , lady , just kindly to see . But the cook came many times , he asked me for ...
... kind of coal I send to your honourable haus , and how is Criblet ? Because I saw the report yesterday that the coal whiche I supply with slake , never me , lady , just kindly to see . But the cook came many times , he asked me for ...
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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