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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... servants , and , above all , the humours and delights of travel in Upper Egypt . I give glimpses of all the everyday life of the Englishman in Egypt , from doing business ( with Egyptians ) to donkey - riding . I also devote several ...
... servants , and , above all , the humours and delights of travel in Upper Egypt . I give glimpses of all the everyday life of the Englishman in Egypt , from doing business ( with Egyptians ) to donkey - riding . I also devote several ...
Page xv
... SERVANT • 31 III . HOW FOREIGNERS LIVE IN CAIRO 42 IV . QUEER THINGS ABOUT CAIRO SOCIETY 46 V. THE WOES OF THE EGYPTIAN HOUSEKEEPER . VI . MORE ABOUT AGENORIA'S SERVAnts . 550 50 VII . DOING BUSINESS WITH EGYPTIANS VIII . THE PASHA • IX ...
... SERVANT • 31 III . HOW FOREIGNERS LIVE IN CAIRO 42 IV . QUEER THINGS ABOUT CAIRO SOCIETY 46 V. THE WOES OF THE EGYPTIAN HOUSEKEEPER . VI . MORE ABOUT AGENORIA'S SERVAnts . 550 50 VII . DOING BUSINESS WITH EGYPTIANS VIII . THE PASHA • IX ...
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... 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 to England a Nekla correspondent ...
... 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 to England a Nekla correspondent ...
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... servants and nurses to nurse his sons in order to grow men like him . The boy must prays his God when he is 15 years old . “ MOHAMMED ABD EL HALIM SIRRY . " " If I were asked I would say that I should live in England because I know only ...
... servants and nurses to nurse his sons in order to grow men like him . The boy must prays his God when he is 15 years old . “ MOHAMMED ABD EL HALIM SIRRY . " " If I were asked I would say that I should live in England because I know only ...
Page 27
... servant . " This letter began " My dear . " And another letter written by a porter concluded with Hoping you are sweetly sailing down life's road . " Mr. Maghrabi signed another letter " your fithfrilly Magh- rabi . " It is a marvel how ...
... servant . " This letter began " My dear . " And another letter written by a porter concluded with Hoping you are sweetly sailing down life's road . " Mr. Maghrabi signed another letter " your fithfrilly Magh- rabi . " It is a marvel how ...
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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