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WOMAN HOLDING THE HUGE WOODEN EGYPTIAN DOOR - KEY IN HER
RIGHT HAND 159 Unchanged from the time of Cleopatra . On the road to
Heliopolis . 174 PLOUGHING IN THE FAYUM This is called the Virgilian plough
in Italy , and ...
WOMAN HOLDING THE HUGE WOODEN EGYPTIAN DOOR - KEY IN HER
RIGHT HAND 159 Unchanged from the time of Cleopatra . On the road to
Heliopolis . 174 PLOUGHING IN THE FAYUM This is called the Virgilian plough
in Italy , and ...
Page 5
You open the door and are almost stunned by the effect . The Mo'allaka is large
for a Coptic church , especially when you consider the character of its
decorations , for it is lined all round with the most perfect Coptic screens . Kait
Bey , the chief ...
You open the door and are almost stunned by the effect . The Mo'allaka is large
for a Coptic church , especially when you consider the character of its
decorations , for it is lined all round with the most perfect Coptic screens . Kait
Bey , the chief ...
Page 17
Then the child will play at the door of his house and sometimes in the lanes with
the boys who agree with him in age . At the age of seven , his father will send him
to a kuttab , in which he will stay about a year . Then if the father is poor he will ...
Then the child will play at the door of his house and sometimes in the lanes with
the boys who agree with him in age . At the age of seven , his father will send him
to a kuttab , in which he will stay about a year . Then if the father is poor he will ...
Page 38
Every house in Egypt has a man at the back of the door , and these men have a
tiresome habit of making their beds right against the door , so that it won't open
even when it is unlocked . This is all right in a private house with a burglar scare
in ...
Every house in Egypt has a man at the back of the door , and these men have a
tiresome habit of making their beds right against the door , so that it won't open
even when it is unlocked . This is all right in a private house with a burglar scare
in ...
Page 52
Then the little vessel is abandoned to the mercy of the winds and wavelets , and
so floats about for a few days , benefiting by sun and air , till the growing embryos
, finding their quarters too close , push open a kind of trap - door in the floor of ...
Then the little vessel is abandoned to the mercy of the winds and wavelets , and
so floats about for a few days , benefiting by sun and air , till the growing embryos
, finding their quarters too close , push open a kind of trap - door in the floor of ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Queer Things about Egypt |
| Author | Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Hurst & Blackett, Limited, 1911 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 16 Mar 2012 |
| Length | 428 pages |
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