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 xix
... HEAD TO SHIELD HER FROM THE FIERCE SUN . • 27 On the road from Karnak to Luxor . In the background are camels carrying stones for building . AT LUXOR sun . Women with their shawls over their head - burdens to protect them from the 36 ...
... HEAD TO SHIELD HER FROM THE FIERCE SUN . • 27 On the road from Karnak to Luxor . In the background are camels carrying stones for building . AT LUXOR sun . Women with their shawls over their head - burdens to protect them from the 36 ...
Page 9
... head of the steps which lead up from the court , and a balcony graced with two pavilions of meshrebiya for the harem ladies : its windows are screened with old woodwork , and its walls are arabesqued . At El- Merdani this joins the ...
... head of the steps which lead up from the court , and a balcony graced with two pavilions of meshrebiya for the harem ladies : its windows are screened with old woodwork , and its walls are arabesqued . At El- Merdani this joins the ...
Page 13
... head thrown back over the stone designed to prevent carriages from going too near the wall . Her mouth was like a black tunnel - you could not see a particle of red on tongue or palate , gums or linings - they were so thickly coated ...
... head thrown back over the stone designed to prevent carriages from going too near the wall . Her mouth was like a black tunnel - you could not see a particle of red on tongue or palate , gums or linings - they were so thickly coated ...
Page 26
... are camels 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.
... are camels 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.
Page 36
... he was waiting for the tea he was in the habit of drinking before he got up . He had to wait so long that he went to look for 1 Evil spirit . 1 AT LUXOR . Women with their shawls over their head 36 Queer Things About Egypt.
... he was waiting for the tea he was in the habit of drinking before he got up . He had to wait so long that he went to look for 1 Evil spirit . 1 AT LUXOR . Women with their shawls over their head 36 Queer Things About Egypt.
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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