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 65
... train leaving in two hours . The Mudir will welcome you with any amount of palaver , as his oldest friend . While he is still palavering , before you have time to get a word in about your business , somebody else will come in , and the ...
... train leaving in two hours . The Mudir will welcome you with any amount of palaver , as his oldest friend . While he is still palavering , before you have time to get a word in about your business , somebody else will come in , and the ...
Page 68
... train was going along a line , when the driver saw a string of camels roped together , walking along the line in front of them . The train whistled and whistled , but the camel - driver for a long time would take no notice . When he did ...
... train was going along a line , when the driver saw a string of camels roped together , walking along the line in front of them . The train whistled and whistled , but the camel - driver for a long time would take no notice . When he did ...
Page 69
... stop expresses at any time , but that he could stop slow trains in the daytime . There was , however , no slow train during the day , so he could do nothing . Influence was brought to bear , and Doing Business with Egyptians 69.
... stop expresses at any time , but that he could stop slow trains in the daytime . There was , however , no slow train during the day , so he could do nothing . Influence was brought to bear , and Doing Business with Egyptians 69.
Page 70
... train , because , as the President had given permission , they thought they would get no bakshish for it . The first time R. arrived at this place was by night , and when he got out of the train he had no lantern , and the natives told ...
... train , because , as the President had given permission , they thought they would get no bakshish for it . The first time R. arrived at this place was by night , and when he got out of the train he had no lantern , and the natives told ...
Page 73
... train falling through it into the roaring abyss . The bridge was not built until two years afterwards , and the Nile only roars at high Nile , when it almost comes up to the bridge , so that if it had been roaring the train would have ...
... train falling through it into the roaring abyss . The bridge was not built until two years afterwards , and the Nile only roars at high Nile , when it almost comes up to the bridge , so that if it had been roaring the train would have ...
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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