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 17
... knew what institutions they wished to study . One feature was common to all , and significant : they were all glib . The Egyptian is always glib , and plausible , and anxious to create a good impression . The trouble with him is that he ...
... knew what institutions they wished to study . One feature was common to all , and significant : they were all glib . The Egyptian is always glib , and plausible , and anxious to create a good impression . The trouble with him is that he ...
Page 39
... knew that he would be wanted ; and Ramidge never found it out till the other suffragi told him about it after the dismissal of this Berberine Box and Cox . The cooking is nearly always done on charcoal Humours of the Suffragi , the ...
... knew that he would be wanted ; and Ramidge never found it out till the other suffragi told him about it after the dismissal of this Berberine Box and Cox . The cooking is nearly always done on charcoal Humours of the Suffragi , the ...
Page 42
... knew , who had eleven pounds a month when he left England , began at thirty pounds a month in Egypt . But the unfortunate clerk , who gets eight pounds a month in England , might not get more than twelve pounds in Egypt , where high pay ...
... knew , who had eleven pounds a month when he left England , began at thirty pounds a month in Egypt . But the unfortunate clerk , who gets eight pounds a month in England , might not get more than twelve pounds in Egypt , where high pay ...
Page 47
... knew who took a house in Cairo , I ventured to ask her something about prices . " Rents are enormous , " she said . " This house is rated at £ 750 a year , and quite a small flat in a good position costs £ 250 a friend of mine in the ...
... knew who took a house in Cairo , I ventured to ask her something about prices . " Rents are enormous , " she said . " This house is rated at £ 750 a year , and quite a small flat in a good position costs £ 250 a friend of mine in the ...
Page 52
... knew a high English official in Egypt , a lean , spare man , who said he always took the fattest woman he could find in to supper at an entertainment , because the mosquitoes were sure to go to her . Mosquitoes are not the worst of the ...
... knew a high English official in Egypt , a lean , spare man , who said he always took the fattest woman he could find in to supper at an entertainment , because the mosquitoes were sure to go to her . Mosquitoes are not the worst of the ...
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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