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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... thought it stood on the tropic line , having been shown a deep , deep well , still to be seen , where the sun was said to shine to the very bottom at the noon of a certain day . Yet Assuan has no yellow fever , no malaria , not one of ...
... thought it stood on the tropic line , having been shown a deep , deep well , still to be seen , where the sun was said to shine to the very bottom at the noon of a certain day . Yet Assuan has no yellow fever , no malaria , not one of ...
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... thought to imply that it was an outwork of On or Helio- polis , one of the early capitals of Egypt , which is six miles away on the other side of Cairo . In the ' mounds ' which cover the ruins of Fustat just outside its gates , little ...
... thought to imply that it was an outwork of On or Helio- polis , one of the early capitals of Egypt , which is six miles away on the other side of Cairo . In the ' mounds ' which cover the ruins of Fustat just outside its gates , little ...
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... thoughts against the Ministry . Nowadays have we ever heard that any abroad ministry was to issued hard rules and laes for their poor to dismiss them away from schools and colleges ? Have we ever heard from abroad that a pupil was last ...
... thoughts against the Ministry . Nowadays have we ever heard that any abroad ministry was to issued hard rules and laes for their poor to dismiss them away from schools and colleges ? Have we ever heard from abroad that a pupil was last ...
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... thoughts on paper to stay and to be used after my death ; but if I dwell the cities , the good views and my ambition in a high rank of life might prevent me from authoring . " Now , in this age , I like to live , without regarding Egypt ...
... thoughts on paper to stay and to be used after my death ; but if I dwell the cities , the good views and my ambition in a high rank of life might prevent me from authoring . " Now , in this age , I like to live , without regarding Egypt ...
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... thoughts , as One is not created to be as well as a donkey . " Mos . EL MAHDY . " The deserts are Everyone wishes to live in the open air . the places where the open air founds . The deserts contain many animals , for him to shoot and ...
... thoughts , as One is not created to be as well as a donkey . " Mos . EL MAHDY . " The deserts are Everyone wishes to live in the open air . the places where the open air founds . The deserts contain many animals , for him to shoot and ...
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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