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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... look quite natural . And Saladin must often have passed here , for he was one of the principal founders of the greatness of Cairo , and the Bab - es - Suweyla is one of the gates I INTRODUCTION CAIRO AN ARAB CITY OF MIDDLE AGES I.
... look quite natural . And Saladin must often have passed here , for he was one of the principal founders of the greatness of Cairo , and the Bab - es - Suweyla is one of the gates I INTRODUCTION CAIRO AN ARAB CITY OF MIDDLE AGES I.
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... look after their monuments . It was the first mosque to employ piers instead of columns , the suggestion of a Christian slave , for otherwise every church in Egypt would have been robbed of the columns garnered from antique temples . In ...
... look after their monuments . It was the first mosque to employ piers instead of columns , the suggestion of a Christian slave , for otherwise every church in Egypt would have been robbed of the columns garnered from antique temples . In ...
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... look where you will , you see noble old Mameluke palaces overshadowing the street , with their ranges of harem oriels screened with the old brown pierced woodwork of their meshrebiya . Here is a ruined mosque ; there is a stately ...
... look where you will , you see noble old Mameluke palaces overshadowing the street , with their ranges of harem oriels screened with the old brown pierced woodwork of their meshrebiya . Here is a ruined mosque ; there is a stately ...
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... look notionally and attentively at thy poor needed subject whom I supposed thou tyrannized and oppressed over . Oh , Mine tremulous hand just stop shaking , I pray , and firmly hold the glow- worm to pen all what thou could for ...
... look notionally and attentively at thy poor needed subject whom I supposed thou tyrannized and oppressed over . Oh , Mine tremulous hand just stop shaking , I pray , and firmly hold the glow- worm to pen all what thou could for ...
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... looks like a font for the baptism of a giant . One boy is playing on the double Arab pipe , which may go back to Ptolemaic times , since they have much the same pipes in Sicily , which are always supposed to have come down from the age ...
... looks like a font for the baptism of a giant . One boy is playing on the double Arab pipe , which may go back to Ptolemaic times , since they have much the same pipes in Sicily , which are always supposed to have come down from the age ...
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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