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 11
... Turning our backs on this , we are soon in the Gamaliya , the stronghold of Cairo mediævalism , the street which de- lights the heart of the Arab . At its entrance , look where you will , you see noble old Mameluke palaces overshadowing ...
... Turning our backs on this , we are soon in the Gamaliya , the stronghold of Cairo mediævalism , the street which de- lights the heart of the Arab . At its entrance , look where you will , you see noble old Mameluke palaces overshadowing ...
Page 16
... turned their eyes towards Switzerland were mostly ambitious of being doctors . Switzerland means edu- cation to the Egyptian , for education is cheap there , and much of it is conducted in French , which many Egyptians In this , made of ...
... turned their eyes towards Switzerland were mostly ambitious of being doctors . Switzerland means edu- cation to the Egyptian , for education is cheap there , and much of it is conducted in French , which many Egyptians In this , made of ...
Page 32
... turning a corner . He pressed all the passers - by into his service until it was righted , and then made a man help ... turned up again with a basket of dates . Ramidge found him on the car when he went down to the garage in the morning ...
... turning a corner . He pressed all the passers - by into his service until it was righted , and then made a man help ... turned up again with a basket of dates . Ramidge found him on the car when he went down to the garage in the morning ...
Page 36
... turned right round till it was all used up . The boy said he had seen the donkey biting at the saddle , and it must have caught the handle for turning the films in its teeth . When Ramidge was living at an old villa near Matariyeh his ...
... turned right round till it was all used up . The boy said he had seen the donkey biting at the saddle , and it must have caught the handle for turning the films in its teeth . When Ramidge was living at an old villa near Matariyeh his ...
Page 50
... turning unaccountably limp , and was worried with the dust which seemed to come up through the coverings - everything was so engrained with it . It did come up through the coverings ; at the close of the summer she took the covers off ...
... turning unaccountably limp , and was worried with the dust which seemed to come up through the coverings - everything was so engrained with it . It did come up through the coverings ; at the close of the summer she took the covers off ...
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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