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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... mile and a half round , are hard to match , and they possess the extraordinary interest of having all their uses marked in plain figures on their walls . Everything has its hieroglyphic explanation painted on it . There are few more ...
... mile and a half round , are hard to match , and they possess the extraordinary interest of having all their uses marked in plain figures on their walls . Everything has its hieroglyphic explanation painted on it . There are few more ...
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... mile and a half round . Sir H. Beerbohm Tree's False Gods at His Majesty's had its principal scene laid in this temple . THE YOUNG IDEA 413 Taken at the village just outside Karnak . The idea of these boys is to make small piastres by ...
... mile and a half round . Sir H. Beerbohm Tree's False Gods at His Majesty's had its principal scene laid in this temple . THE YOUNG IDEA 413 Taken at the village just outside Karnak . The idea of these boys is to make small piastres by ...
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... mile away , in the Bab - es - Suweyla , the apparition of Saladin , the chivalrous Sultan who fought against our Richard Cœur de Lion in the Crusades , would look quite natural . And Saladin must often have passed here , for he was one ...
... mile away , in the Bab - es - Suweyla , the apparition of Saladin , the chivalrous Sultan who fought against our Richard Cœur de Lion in the Crusades , would look quite natural . And Saladin must often have passed here , for he was one ...
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... miles away on the other side of Cairo . In the ' mounds ' which cover the ruins of Fustat just outside its gates , little dumps of ancient Egyptian antiquities are found . I myself picked up a tiny image of Knum , the Ram - headed god ...
... miles away on the other side of Cairo . In the ' mounds ' which cover the ruins of Fustat just outside its gates , little dumps of ancient Egyptian antiquities are found . I myself picked up a tiny image of Knum , the Ram - headed god ...
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... mile from Nekla , Behera , was fast asleep in the middle of the day ' This story under different names is also told against a grocer in North Wales . But surely the Egyptian version must be the original . 2 Most of the irresistibly ...
... mile from Nekla , Behera , was fast asleep in the middle of the day ' This story under different names is also told against a grocer in North Wales . But surely the Egyptian version must be the original . 2 Most of the irresistibly ...
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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