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 12
... told against a grocer in North Wales . But surely the Egyptian version must be the original . 2 Most of the irresistibly humorous incidents of Egyptian life which appear in this volume were related to me by Mr. or Mrs. Cromwell Rhodes ...
... told against a grocer in North Wales . But surely the Egyptian version must be the original . 2 Most of the irresistibly humorous incidents of Egyptian life which appear in this volume were related to me by Mr. or Mrs. Cromwell Rhodes ...
Page 36
... told him one day that three men had been mur- dered the previous night in the road between the villa and the station , two by robbers and one by an afrit . ' He begged Ramidge never to send him to the station again by night . He had ...
... told him one day that three men had been mur- dered the previous night in the road between the villa and the station , two by robbers and one by an afrit . ' He begged Ramidge never to send him to the station again by night . He had ...
Page 39
... and Ramidge never found it out till the other suffragi told him about it after the dismissal of this Berberine Box and Cox . The cooking is nearly always done on charcoal Humours of the Suffragi , the Egyptian Servant 39.
... and Ramidge never found it out till the other suffragi told him about it after the dismissal of this Berberine Box and Cox . The cooking is nearly always done on charcoal Humours of the Suffragi , the Egyptian Servant 39.
Page 40
... told the Egyptian his faults with uncompromising candour , may perhaps be credited when I confess that I liked the Egyptian servants , who waited on me in various ships and hotels , very much . I expected them to be obliging ...
... told the Egyptian his faults with uncompromising candour , may perhaps be credited when I confess that I liked the Egyptian servants , who waited on me in various ships and hotels , very much . I expected them to be obliging ...
Page 44
... told not to pay the cabman anything , and the licence was taken away . The police are severe with cabmen , and it is necessary , as the cabbies drive at a gallop and don't mind running over anybody or anything . They call out " Ouah ...
... told not to pay the cabman anything , and the licence was taken away . The police are severe with cabmen , and it is necessary , as the cabbies drive at a gallop and don't mind running over anybody or anything . They call out " Ouah ...
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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