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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... lady needs the assistance of at least three people . The camel generally roars all the time . A ROMÁN CASTLE IN THE GREAT OASIS OF THE LIBYAN DESERT Which is Herodotus's Island of the Blest . 292 DOUM PALM AND WELL IN THE ROMAN CASTLE ...
... lady needs the assistance of at least three people . The camel generally roars all the time . A ROMÁN CASTLE IN THE GREAT OASIS OF THE LIBYAN DESERT Which is Herodotus's Island of the Blest . 292 DOUM PALM AND WELL IN THE ROMAN CASTLE ...
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... lady needs the assistance of at least three people. The camel generally roars all the time. A ROMAN CASTLE IN THE GREAT OASIS OF THE LIBYAN DESERT . 292 Which is Herodotus's Island of the Blest. DOUM PALM AND WELL IN THE ROMAN CASTLE OF ...
... lady needs the assistance of at least three people. The camel generally roars all the time. A ROMAN CASTLE IN THE GREAT OASIS OF THE LIBYAN DESERT . 292 Which is Herodotus's Island of the Blest. DOUM PALM AND WELL IN THE ROMAN CASTLE OF ...
Page 8
... ladies of the harem , over a feudal gateway . There are three approaches from El - Katai to the Bab - es- Suweyla , the chief gate of El - Kahira — the Bazar of the Armourers , starting by Sultan Hassan's mosque , the most majestic in ...
... ladies of the harem , over a feudal gateway . There are three approaches from El - Katai to the Bab - es- Suweyla , the chief gate of El - Kahira — the Bazar of the Armourers , starting by Sultan Hassan's mosque , the most majestic in ...
Page 9
... ladies : its windows are screened with old woodwork , and its walls are arabesqued . At El- Merdani this joins the Sharia - el - Tabbana , the continuation of the Sharia - el - Magar , the finest of the three approaches . For that ...
... ladies : its windows are screened with old woodwork , and its walls are arabesqued . At El- Merdani this joins the Sharia - el - Tabbana , the continuation of the Sharia - el - Magar , the finest of the three approaches . For that ...
Page 27
... lady to speak with your mariad ( husband ) to give him one paper to Master Aupest . I ask to my God to gave you a long life . « Hamfy your humble servant . " This letter began " My dear . " And another letter written by a porter ...
... lady to speak with your mariad ( husband ) to give him one paper to Master Aupest . I ask to my God to gave you a long life . « Hamfy your humble servant . " This letter began " My dear . " And another letter written by a porter ...
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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