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 18
... took all his certificates in a short time . When he was able to know the good and bad things that is useful or not to his country , he did many good works and writes many useful books so in a very high rank between his natives and was ...
... took all his certificates in a short time . When he was able to know the good and bad things that is useful or not to his country , he did many good works and writes many useful books so in a very high rank between his natives and was ...
Page 25
... took the topmost rank in civilisation and arts , its victory over China and Russia being a good example . Japan is made up of a number of volcanic islands , of which the chief are Yezzo , Nippon , Likuku and Kiusko . Among its chief ...
... took the topmost rank in civilisation and arts , its victory over China and Russia being a good example . Japan is made up of a number of volcanic islands , of which the chief are Yezzo , Nippon , Likuku and Kiusko . Among its chief ...
Page 32
... took the car out again one Saturday morning , and was seen with sixteen other boys piled up on it , though it was a very small one , driving round and round the Esbikiya Gardens . Ramidge offered him his choice of going to prison or ...
... took the car out again one Saturday morning , and was seen with sixteen other boys piled up on it , though it was a very small one , driving round and round the Esbikiya Gardens . Ramidge offered him his choice of going to prison or ...
Page 39
... took another job at a café round the corner , and only put in an appearance at Ramidge's when he was fetched , except at certain stated times when he knew that he would be wanted ; and Ramidge never found it out till the other suffragi ...
... took another job at a café round the corner , and only put in an appearance at Ramidge's when he was fetched , except at certain stated times when he knew that he would be wanted ; and Ramidge never found it out till the other suffragi ...
Page 45
... took out intro- ductions to them . But here and there the official was an old friend , and one could not get out of accepting hospitalities . It was just as it had been in Japan , and other far - off places . The English people spent as ...
... took out intro- ductions to them . But here and there the official was an old friend , and one could not get out of accepting hospitalities . It was just as it had been in Japan , and other far - off places . The English people spent as ...
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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