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 15
... wished to know the Egyptian boy's mind , set his class the following subjects for essays : I. Write an account of life in the country you would like to live in . 2. Write an account of the life of the boy from his birth to his marriage ...
... wished to know the Egyptian boy's mind , set his class the following subjects for essays : I. Write an account of life in the country you would like to live in . 2. Write an account of the life of the boy from his birth to his marriage ...
Page 16
... wished to go to Turkey because its laws ( under the late Sultan ) were so much better and so much better admin- istered than those of other countries , or because it had such a beautiful climate - its climate in reality being on a par ...
... wished to go to Turkey because its laws ( under the late Sultan ) were so much better and so much better admin- istered than those of other countries , or because it had such a beautiful climate - its climate in reality being on a par ...
Page 17
... wished to see and do . They knew what institutions they wished to study . One feature was common to all , and significant : they were all glib . The Egyptian is always glib , and plausible , and anxious to create a good impression . The ...
... wished to see and do . They knew what institutions they wished to study . One feature was common to all , and significant : they were all glib . The Egyptian is always glib , and plausible , and anxious to create a good impression . The ...
Page 21
... wished to go the school of law , polytechnic , agriculture , medicine , etc. , in this time he can marriage and then stay in the serve of his country till he neither die or the govern- ment turns him out . " GHALI SOLIMAN . " " So ...
... wished to go the school of law , polytechnic , agriculture , medicine , etc. , in this time he can marriage and then stay in the serve of his country till he neither die or the govern- ment turns him out . " GHALI SOLIMAN . " " So ...
Page 31
... wished to be hired as servant for cleaning a jibbing motor - car which Ramidge possessed . Ramidge refused to have anything to do with him at first , but as the boy cleaned the car , and stayed by it for a whole fortnight for nothing ...
... wished to be hired as servant for cleaning a jibbing motor - car which Ramidge possessed . Ramidge refused to have anything to do with him at first , but as the boy cleaned the car , and stayed by it for a whole fortnight for nothing ...
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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