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 xxii
... river bank at Luxor , with the hills of Thebes in the background . THE TEMPLE OF PTAH AT KARNAK , WHERE THE MOON SHINES ON THE IMAGE OF THE GODDESS SEKKET . This is the image which the fellahin think is an ogre who devours children . A ...
... river bank at Luxor , with the hills of Thebes in the background . THE TEMPLE OF PTAH AT KARNAK , WHERE THE MOON SHINES ON THE IMAGE OF THE GODDESS SEKKET . This is the image which the fellahin think is an ogre who devours children . A ...
Page xxii
... river bank at Luxor, with the hills of Thebes in the background. THE TEMPLE OF PTAH AT KARNAK, WHERE THE MOON S1-IINES ON THE IMAGE OF THE GODDESS SEKKET . . . . . 310 This is the image which the fellahin think is an ogre who devours ...
... river bank at Luxor, with the hills of Thebes in the background. THE TEMPLE OF PTAH AT KARNAK, WHERE THE MOON S1-IINES ON THE IMAGE OF THE GODDESS SEKKET . . . . . 310 This is the image which the fellahin think is an ogre who devours ...
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... river , found that they had eaten up his staircase , which collapsed the moment he put his foot on it . It is no wonder that concrete is the favourite material for floors - the ants have not shown any taste for that so far . I know ...
... river , found that they had eaten up his staircase , which collapsed the moment he put his foot on it . It is no wonder that concrete is the favourite material for floors - the ants have not shown any taste for that so far . I know ...
Page 80
... river wall . Then the Pasha was sud- denly lost . Agenoria , who knew him , said , " We had better wait here for half an hour . " She guessed exactly what had happened : he had thought that his supper might not be right , and had flown ...
... river wall . Then the Pasha was sud- denly lost . Agenoria , who knew him , said , " We had better wait here for half an hour . " She guessed exactly what had happened : he had thought that his supper might not be right , and had flown ...
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... river . Agenoria went to her house - one of those big , old houses on the river , which made you quite nervous to go inside them they had such cracks that you thought they would have fallen every minute . She was shown into the ...
... river . Agenoria went to her house - one of those big , old houses on the river , which made you quite nervous to go inside them they had such cracks that you thought they would have fallen every minute . She was shown into 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