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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... riding a donkey . FELLAHIN WAITING FOR THE POLICE - COURT TO OPEN AT LUXOR · 44 AT DAMIETTA Forage ass protesting . 45 FACING PAGE FELLAHIN CHILDREN WATCHING THE FOREIGNERS RIDE PAST 54 xix DEDICATION PAGE XV EGYPTIAN'S.
... riding a donkey . FELLAHIN WAITING FOR THE POLICE - COURT TO OPEN AT LUXOR · 44 AT DAMIETTA Forage ass protesting . 45 FACING PAGE FELLAHIN CHILDREN WATCHING THE FOREIGNERS RIDE PAST 54 xix DEDICATION PAGE XV EGYPTIAN'S.
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... armed re- tainers , who were no doubt only waiting for an opportunity to throw off the rule of Mehemet Ali . Even if Mehemet Ali , who had wrested the virtual independence of Egypt from the Turks , and his son , the warlike 2 Introduction.
... armed re- tainers , who were no doubt only waiting for an opportunity to throw off the rule of Mehemet Ali . Even if Mehemet Ali , who had wrested the virtual independence of Egypt from the Turks , and his son , the warlike 2 Introduction.
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... next morning when he was waiting for the tea he was in the habit of drinking before he got up . He had to wait so long that he went to look for 1 Evil spirit . 1 AT LUXOR . Women with their shawls over their head 36 Queer Things About ...
... next morning when he was waiting for the tea he was in the habit of drinking before he got up . He had to wait so long that he went to look for 1 Evil spirit . 1 AT LUXOR . Women with their shawls over their head 36 Queer Things About ...
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... waiting - room . Residents , however little they may be able to afford it , certainly do use cabs for everything ; and this soon mounts up , though cabs , before the recent rise in fares , were cheap , — three piastres ( 7d . ) for a ...
... waiting - room . Residents , however little they may be able to afford it , certainly do use cabs for everything ; and this soon mounts up , though cabs , before the recent rise in fares , were cheap , — three piastres ( 7d . ) for a ...
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Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. FELLAHIN WAITING FOR THE POLICE - COURT TO OPEN AT LUXOR . ( p . 44.
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. FELLAHIN WAITING FOR THE POLICE - COURT TO OPEN AT LUXOR . ( p . 44.
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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