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 6
... wonderful grace as well as wonderful softness of colouring , and in its centre is a tall , long , narrow pulpit , made of old marble , which would be like the ambones of the Aracoeli at Rome if it were not supported on fifteen antique ...
... wonderful grace as well as wonderful softness of colouring , and in its centre is a tall , long , narrow pulpit , made of old marble , which would be like the ambones of the Aracoeli at Rome if it were not supported on fifteen antique ...
Page 43
... wonderful heads for figures , and most Egyptians are very neat in matters like keeping books and doing maps . It is not possible to economise in Egypt by going without , because the essentials are among the costly items , except a few ...
... wonderful heads for figures , and most Egyptians are very neat in matters like keeping books and doing maps . It is not possible to economise in Egypt by going without , because the essentials are among the costly items , except a few ...
Page 64
... wonderful way with cypress leaves and oranges . Whenever he was asked how he did this , that , or the other , he used to reply with great dignity , " Me watch Madame much . " As he grew up he became rather a nuisance , because he paid ...
... wonderful way with cypress leaves and oranges . Whenever he was asked how he did this , that , or the other , he used to reply with great dignity , " Me watch Madame much . " As he grew up he became rather a nuisance , because he paid ...
Page 104
... pair of slippers , with , of course , a wonderful helmet , and an umbrella big enough to shade a French market - woman's stall . He suffered the torments of the damned from the flies : they ate his bare 104 Queer Things About Egypt.
... pair of slippers , with , of course , a wonderful helmet , and an umbrella big enough to shade a French market - woman's stall . He suffered the torments of the damned from the flies : they ate his bare 104 Queer Things About Egypt.
Page 136
... wonderful product : he was barely eighteen , and he was a bare - legged donkey - boy ; but he was willing to take up any contract for the conveyance of foreigners , and capable of carrying it out . He was a Mohammedan , educated at the ...
... wonderful product : he was barely eighteen , and he was a bare - legged donkey - boy ; but he was willing to take up any contract for the conveyance of foreigners , and capable of carrying it out . He was a Mohammedan , educated at the ...
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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