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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... would 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.
... would 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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... passed from the beginning of the year , I am very sorry to be punished in these day , ' The day which is called by all the days of the pupils ' plot . I think that you are quite well knows my conducts . As this I beg you only to punish ...
... passed from the beginning of the year , I am very sorry to be punished in these day , ' The day which is called by all the days of the pupils ' plot . I think that you are quite well knows my conducts . As this I beg you only to punish ...
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... passed by the thousand . She smiled when she thought how Sir John would enjoy the tenderness of that deceptive morceau . She once had a Coptic servant . He left under exceptional circumstances . She had an Irish female cook , a very ...
... passed by the thousand . She smiled when she thought how Sir John would enjoy the tenderness of that deceptive morceau . She once had a Coptic servant . He left under exceptional circumstances . She had an Irish female cook , a very ...
Page 80
... passed word to the subalterns that they were not to drink with him in public bars . But to return to the picnic . Agenoria had to drive with him in his carriage ; they drove right out to Ghezira and wandered along the river wall . Then ...
... passed word to the subalterns that they were not to drink with him in public bars . But to return to the picnic . Agenoria had to drive with him in his carriage ; they drove right out to Ghezira and wandered along the river wall . Then ...
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... passed . Agenoria was supposed to be a sort of keeper to the Pasha's wife . When subsequently that giddy lady eloped , old Khadijah came straight to Agenoria to ask where she had gone to ; she would not believe that Agenoria had not ...
... passed . Agenoria was supposed to be a sort of keeper to the Pasha's wife . When subsequently that giddy lady eloped , old Khadijah came straight to Agenoria to ask where she had gone to ; she would not believe that Agenoria had not ...
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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