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 12
... once and oblige . " Your humble servant , " HASSAN , HASSAN EL KAMEL . " After I write this my wife have found the sope under the counter . " Killed by a serpent while it was trying to commit suicide . When Cromwell Rhodes had returned ...
... once and oblige . " Your humble servant , " HASSAN , HASSAN EL KAMEL . " After I write this my wife have found the sope under the counter . " Killed by a serpent while it was trying to commit suicide . When Cromwell Rhodes had returned ...
Page 13
... once , but , alas , everything was already in . He then kept it in mind day and 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 ...
... once , but , alas , everything was already in . He then kept it in mind day and 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 ...
Page 33
... once , a good many weeks earlier . I had been to Khartûm and back in the interval . Belsize , another friend of ours , had an admirable Berberine servant , who simply ruled him . He would not allow him to use the stick which Ramidge had ...
... once , a good many weeks earlier . I had been to Khartûm and back in the interval . Belsize , another friend of ours , had an admirable Berberine servant , who simply ruled him . He would not allow him to use the stick which Ramidge had ...
Page 36
... once had a camera fastened to the back of a donkey . The donkey had the usual boy with it . When Ramidge wanted to use the camera , he found that the roll of films had been turned right round till it was all used up . The boy said he ...
... once had a camera fastened to the back of a donkey . The donkey had the usual boy with it . When Ramidge wanted to use the camera , he found that the roll of films had been turned right round till it was all used up . The boy said he ...
Page 43
... once they have learned where there is likely to be a block . It is prudent to board the tram on the far side of the sticky point , or you may have a quarter of an hour's free use of the tram as a waiting - room . Residents , however ...
... once they have learned where there is likely to be a block . It is prudent to board the tram on the far side of the sticky point , or you may have a quarter of an hour's free use of the tram as a waiting - room . Residents , however ...
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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