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 17
... lakes are irresistibly attractive . The boy who wanted to go to the United States had perfectly vague ideas . The boy who wanted to go to Japan was the best educated and the best informed of all . His essay read almost like an English ...
... lakes are irresistibly attractive . The boy who wanted to go to the United States had perfectly vague ideas . The boy who wanted to go to Japan was the best educated and the best informed of all . His essay read almost like an English ...
Page 115
... Lake Moeris . We waited till some one with a language for each of us came along . Finally we made our terms with the cook , who could speak Italian . And whenever we wanted any- thing the cook was relieved by the landlord in the kitchen ...
... Lake Moeris . We waited till some one with a language for each of us came along . Finally we made our terms with the cook , who could speak Italian . And whenever we wanted any- thing the cook was relieved by the landlord in the kitchen ...
Page 123
... Lake Kurun , which involved an hour or so by train , and an hour or two's drive at the end of it . There you slept in tents or native huts , and dined in the upper part of a two- storeyed marquee , of which the bottom part was of ...
... Lake Kurun , which involved an hour or so by train , and an hour or two's drive at the end of it . There you slept in tents or native huts , and dined in the upper part of a two- storeyed marquee , of which the bottom part was of ...
Page 155
... lakes is enhanced by the numerous palms and fruit - trees round them . Another watery attraction of Alexandria is the old Mahmûdiya Canal . It is not really old ; it was only con- structed by Mehemet Ali , but it looks as old as the ...
... lakes is enhanced by the numerous palms and fruit - trees round them . Another watery attraction of Alexandria is the old Mahmûdiya Canal . It is not really old ; it was only con- structed by Mehemet Ali , but it looks as old as the ...
Page 156
... Lake Mareotis . We went there one Sunday afternoon , so we saw Greek ladies , very smart - Greeks love finery , and at Alexandria they can afford to buy French clothes - promenading along the Mahmûdiya . Our cabman witticised them ; he ...
... Lake Mareotis . We went there one Sunday afternoon , so we saw Greek ladies , very smart - Greeks love finery , and at Alexandria they can afford to buy French clothes - promenading along the Mahmûdiya . Our cabman witticised them ; he ...
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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