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 xxiii
... King Amen - hetep III . , which has now disappeared . At high Nile the land on which they stand is inundated . • 326 THE VALLEY OF THE TOMBS OF THE KINGS AT THEBES • The rocks of the exterior , with their noble architectural effects ...
... King Amen - hetep III . , which has now disappeared . At high Nile the land on which they stand is inundated . • 326 THE VALLEY OF THE TOMBS OF THE KINGS AT THEBES • The rocks of the exterior , with their noble architectural effects ...
Page 90
... King of Siam came to Cairo , Agenoria's husband always had to go and see the royal personages received and put into their train . On one occasion the Khedive would not step into his carriage , and it was not etiquette to ask him why ...
... King of Siam came to Cairo , Agenoria's husband always had to go and see the royal personages received and put into their train . On one occasion the Khedive would not step into his carriage , and it was not etiquette to ask him why ...
Page 106
... King Usertsen III . , B.C. 2333 , to guard the Second Cataract , they were telegraphed for . The excuse was that their dahabeah would have been stranded by the fall of the Nile if they waited any longer . The fact was that they had done ...
... King Usertsen III . , B.C. 2333 , to guard the Second Cataract , they were telegraphed for . The excuse was that their dahabeah would have been stranded by the fall of the Nile if they waited any longer . The fact was that they had done ...
Page 113
... of the ladies and gentlemen who rely upon the distance from the Divorce Courts of our country . In two , at any rate , of the best hotels the King's Proctor could combine business with pleasure on a holiday . It is no part 113 8.
... of the ladies and gentlemen who rely upon the distance from the Divorce Courts of our country . In two , at any rate , of the best hotels the King's Proctor could combine business with pleasure on a holiday . It is no part 113 8.
Page 141
... Kings , and such trifles . When the Major pretended not to understand him he said , " You know , the gentleman who says ' I will , ' ' I won't , ' ' Get out ! ' ' Get away ! ' " imitating the tones in which I swore at Arabs , when they ...
... Kings , and such trifles . When the Major pretended not to understand him he said , " You know , the gentleman who says ' I will , ' ' I won't , ' ' Get out ! ' ' Get away ! ' " imitating the tones in which I swore at Arabs , when they ...
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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