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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... night . Push boldly through it . Step to the end of the alley and knock at a feudal doorway . This is the palace of Sultan Beybars . The major - domo of the courteous sheikh will come out and conduct you through a leafy court , with the ...
... night . Push boldly through it . Step to the end of the alley and knock at a feudal doorway . This is the palace of Sultan Beybars . The major - domo of the courteous sheikh will come out and conduct you through a leafy court , with the ...
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... night for a few days , during which he grew pale and ill and at last died , a murder of the would - be - killed reptile . " Egyptians have a habit of sleeping with their mouths open . Under an arch by the Beit - el - Kadi at Cairo , I ...
... night for a few days , during which he grew pale and ill and at last died , a murder of the would - be - killed reptile . " Egyptians have a habit of sleeping with their mouths open . Under an arch by the Beit - el - Kadi at Cairo , I ...
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... night specially for my wish . My wish will be the best I see for I want to be one of the inhabitants of the desert . At night I watch the purple sky , the bright moon , and the diamond stars 22 Queer Things About Egypt.
... night specially for my wish . My wish will be the best I see for I want to be one of the inhabitants of the desert . At night I watch the purple sky , the bright moon , and the diamond stars 22 Queer Things About Egypt.
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... night and meet some animals and therefore he could be able to meet the fierce animals and shoot them . My " If any one asks me , where do you wish to live , answer will be In the deserts . Where there is no bad smelling and there is no ...
... night and meet some animals and therefore he could be able to meet the fierce animals and shoot them . My " If any one asks me , where do you wish to live , answer will be In the deserts . Where there is no bad smelling and there is no ...
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... night . Saturday 3. Avoid medecines . Gusty winds . His aspirations make one European worthy of admission to this Valhalla- " Young German seeks lodgings of lady very severe . Under ' Birch , ' Poste Restante , Cairo " CHAPTER II On the ...
... night . Saturday 3. Avoid medecines . Gusty winds . His aspirations make one European worthy of admission to this Valhalla- " Young German seeks lodgings of lady very severe . Under ' Birch , ' Poste Restante , Cairo " CHAPTER II On the ...
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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