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 43
... shilling a pound . The young man thinks Egypt a cheap place , because he saves on liquors and cigarettes ; White Seal Buchanan whisky only costs 2s . 6d . a bottle in a bar , and only 10 piastres ( 2s . Id . ) in a shop ; and the ...
... shilling a pound . The young man thinks Egypt a cheap place , because he saves on liquors and cigarettes ; White Seal Buchanan whisky only costs 2s . 6d . a bottle in a bar , and only 10 piastres ( 2s . Id . ) in a shop ; and the ...
Page 44
... shillings ) at the end of it . When I first went to Egypt , a pessimistic person , who had been many years in the country , and whom I was pumping for information , said : " You have spoken about society , and rent , and Sir Ernest ...
... shillings ) at the end of it . When I first went to Egypt , a pessimistic person , who had been many years in the country , and whom I was pumping for information , said : " You have spoken about society , and rent , and Sir Ernest ...
Page 47
... shillings a head , a day to feed each person in my house . Beside the head Arab I have a cook and his boy , an English ' useful maid , ' a gardener , and a coachman . My chauffeur comes from the garage . " " Do your servants give you ...
... shillings a head , a day to feed each person in my house . Beside the head Arab I have a cook and his boy , an English ' useful maid , ' a gardener , and a coachman . My chauffeur comes from the garage . " " Do your servants give you ...
Page 103
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. he kept for these picnics , which cost him four shillings a pound . It acted , however , quite as well as barley . R. had a private car when he was travelling up and down the line , and had this servant ...
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. he kept for these picnics , which cost him four shillings a pound . It acted , however , quite as well as barley . R. had a private car when he was travelling up and down the line , and had this servant ...
Page 109
... shillings , while he got nothing out of it . If he had received the thousand pounds he would have thought it an eminently proper proceeding , and would have taken pains to satisfy the concessionaire so as to get a larger bakshish next ...
... shillings , while he got nothing out of it . If he had received the thousand pounds he would have thought it an eminently proper proceeding , and would have taken pains to satisfy the concessionaire so as to get a larger bakshish next ...
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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