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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... natives in Cairo who have never heard of the Pharaohs and the monuments of ancient Egypt . If you want to see Egypt pure and simple , naked and unashamed , you must go down into the Delta , or up into Upper Egypt . I give a general ...
... natives in Cairo who have never heard of the Pharaohs and the monuments of ancient Egypt . If you want to see Egypt pure and simple , naked and unashamed , you must go down into the Delta , or up into Upper Egypt . I give a general ...
Page xix
... NATIVE LUTB IN THE BAZARS AT CAIRO Native children behind him . THE AUTHOR IN HIS ARAB DRESS Frontispiece · FACING PAGE 4 THE POTTERS ' MARKET , WITH MOSQUE AND FELLAH WOMEN IN THE BACKGROUND , AT GIZEH , A SUBURB OF CAIRO . AN EGYPTIAN ...
... NATIVE LUTB IN THE BAZARS AT CAIRO Native children behind him . THE AUTHOR IN HIS ARAB DRESS Frontispiece · FACING PAGE 4 THE POTTERS ' MARKET , WITH MOSQUE AND FELLAH WOMEN IN THE BACKGROUND , AT GIZEH , A SUBURB OF CAIRO . AN EGYPTIAN ...
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... you always have to dive under a house . These churches are very , very ancient , and go back to the days when the churches were the particular object of Moslem P. 4 ] Native children bshind him . persecution and Introduction.
... you always have to dive under a house . These churches are very , very ancient , and go back to the days when the churches were the particular object of Moslem P. 4 ] Native children bshind him . persecution and Introduction.
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Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. P. 4 ] Native children bshind him . persecution and insult . They are always , moreover ,. OLD MAN PLAYING NATIVE LUTE IN THE BAZARS AT CAIRO . THE AUTHOR IN HIS ARAB DRESS .
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. P. 4 ] Native children bshind him . persecution and insult . They are always , moreover ,. OLD MAN PLAYING NATIVE LUTE IN THE BAZARS AT CAIRO . THE AUTHOR IN HIS ARAB DRESS .
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... points out that the word is also applied by the natives to the Roman forts of the Oasis , which possess no trace of ever having been used as convents . arches inserted at a later date to lead to the Cairo an Arab City of the Middle Ages 5.
... points out that the word is also applied by the natives to the Roman forts of the Oasis , which possess no trace of ever having been used as convents . arches inserted at a later date to lead to the Cairo an Arab City of the Middle Ages 5.
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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