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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... carrying stones for building . AT LUXOR sun . Women with their shawls over their head - burdens to protect them from the 36 EXIT EGYPT 37 Fellah in his ordinary costume , riding a donkey . FELLAHIN WAITING FOR THE POLICE - COURT TO OPEN ...
... carrying stones for building . AT LUXOR sun . Women with their shawls over their head - burdens to protect them from the 36 EXIT EGYPT 37 Fellah in his ordinary costume , riding a donkey . FELLAHIN WAITING FOR THE POLICE - COURT TO OPEN ...
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... the Conscription . The women are weeping because their sons have not been pronounced physically unfit to serve their country . 123 HOW WOMEN CARRY THEIR CHILDREN IN UPPER EGYPT Women in XX List of Illustrations COUNTRY PAGE.
... the Conscription . The women are weeping because their sons have not been pronounced physically unfit to serve their country . 123 HOW WOMEN CARRY THEIR CHILDREN IN UPPER EGYPT Women in XX List of Illustrations COUNTRY PAGE.
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Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. HOW WOMEN CARRY THEIR CHILDREN IN UPPER EGYPT Women in a street in Luxor on the Day of ... carried on . OLD MOSQUE AT ROSETTA At Rosetta the mosques are ancient , beautiful , and unrestored . There is no ...
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. HOW WOMEN CARRY THEIR CHILDREN IN UPPER EGYPT Women in a street in Luxor on the Day of ... carried on . OLD MOSQUE AT ROSETTA At Rosetta the mosques are ancient , beautiful , and unrestored . There is no ...
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... carried on well in the country in those days . It is the nearest place to Egypt that if you wish to return again to your native land ; you would not spend much money . " MOHAMMED HOSSEIN . " " The country that I live in outside Egypt is ...
... carried on well in the country in those days . It is the nearest place to Egypt that if you wish to return again to your native land ; you would not spend much money . " MOHAMMED HOSSEIN . " " The country that I live in outside Egypt is ...
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... carrying stones for building . work as post man or clean man , and ask. EGYPTIAN WOMAN WITH HER SHAWL OVER THE BURDEN ON HER HEAD TO SHIELD HER FROM THE FIERCE SUN . Fellah in his ordinary costume , riding a donkey . [ p . 27.
... carrying stones for building . work as post man or clean man , and ask. EGYPTIAN WOMAN WITH HER SHAWL OVER THE BURDEN ON HER HEAD TO SHIELD HER FROM THE FIERCE SUN . Fellah in his ordinary costume , riding a donkey . [ p . 27.
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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