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 vii
... England and one for all the world . To England she is a brand snatched from the burning . A century and more ago , in the two battles of Abukir , by land and sea , Nelson and Abercromby saved her from becoming an Algeria ; and less than ...
... England and one for all the world . To England she is a brand snatched from the burning . A century and more ago , in the two battles of Abukir , by land and sea , Nelson and Abercromby saved her from becoming an Algeria ; and less than ...
Page 12
... England a Nekla correspondent sent him the following account of what he aptly termed a " strange event " : " While a native from Kafr Awana , which is half a mile from Nekla , Behera , was fast asleep in the middle of the day ' This ...
... England a Nekla correspondent sent him the following account of what he aptly termed a " strange event " : " While a native from Kafr Awana , which is half a mile from Nekla , Behera , was fast asleep in the middle of the day ' This ...
Page 16
... England had three each , Italy , the United States , and Japan one each . None of them desired to go to Germany . In the essays upon Turkey , they generally began by saying that they wished to go to Turkey because its laws ( under the ...
... England had three each , Italy , the United States , and Japan one each . None of them desired to go to Germany . In the essays upon Turkey , they generally began by saying that they wished to go to Turkey because its laws ( under the ...
Page 17
... England and France were also among the most advanced in spelling and grammar , and had tolerably accurate ideas of what they wished to see and do . They knew what institutions they wished to study . One feature was common to all , and ...
... England and France were also among the most advanced in spelling and grammar , and had tolerably accurate ideas of what they wished to see and do . They knew what institutions they wished to study . One feature was common to all , and ...
Page 22
... England because I know only English and Arabic , no more , so I am able to speak with English individual and government . For e.g. if I were to go at school and take some certificates and then I may be appointed there . On the whole men ...
... England because I know only English and Arabic , no more , so I am able to speak with English individual and government . For e.g. if I were to go at school and take some certificates and then I may be appointed there . On the whole men ...
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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