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 ix
... temple and tomb the date and circum- stances of its erection , the story of its founder , and the uses to which it ... temples , and the tiniest minutiæ of household implements and personal ornaments , but hardly one house that was not ...
... temple and tomb the date and circum- stances of its erection , the story of its founder , and the uses to which it ... temples , and the tiniest minutiæ of household implements and personal ornaments , but hardly one house that was not ...
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Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. For perfect preservation the temples of Egypt have no rivals among monuments of high antiquity . If the religion of the Pharaohs were to be revived the Edfu temple would only need the attentions of the ...
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. For perfect preservation the temples of Egypt have no rivals among monuments of high antiquity . If the religion of the Pharaohs were to be revived the Edfu temple would only need the attentions of the ...
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... TEMPLE OF DENDERAH . XXIX . LUXOR , THE CITY OF THE LOTUS - EATER · 277 296 • 303 XXX . THE TOMBS OF THE PHARAOHS AT THEBES 313 XXXI . HUNDRED - PYLONED THEBES . XXXII . THREE GREAT TEMPLES - ESNA , EDfu , and KOMOMBO 324 · 338 XXXIII ...
... TEMPLE OF DENDERAH . XXIX . LUXOR , THE CITY OF THE LOTUS - EATER · 277 296 • 303 XXX . THE TOMBS OF THE PHARAOHS AT THEBES 313 XXXI . HUNDRED - PYLONED THEBES . XXXII . THREE GREAT TEMPLES - ESNA , EDfu , and KOMOMBO 324 · 338 XXXIII ...
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... Temple in the background . On the plain of Thebes . DRAGOMAN EXPLAINING CARTOUCHES IN THE TEMPLE OF KOMOMBO Mohammed , the chief Dragoman of Thomas Cook & Son in Egypt . 350 FUZZY - WUZZY 351 The Bisharin and his encampment . THE WITCH ...
... Temple in the background . On the plain of Thebes . DRAGOMAN EXPLAINING CARTOUCHES IN THE TEMPLE OF KOMOMBO Mohammed , the chief Dragoman of Thomas Cook & Son in Egypt . 350 FUZZY - WUZZY 351 The Bisharin and his encampment . THE WITCH ...
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... temple near a remote station . The Rhodeses had to be at the station to receive him . When they got there the station - master was duly impressed ; to him Mr. Rhodes was the fountain of honour from whom all blessings flowed . The royal ...
... temple near a remote station . The Rhodeses had to be at the station to receive him . When they got there the station - master was duly impressed ; to him Mr. Rhodes was the fountain of honour from whom all blessings flowed . The royal ...
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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