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 1
... present work without devoting to it at least fifty or sixty thousand words , and thereby curtailing the space indispensable for a descrip- tion of the life and cities on the Nile , from the Sea to Assuan , was to generalise upon it in ...
... present work without devoting to it at least fifty or sixty thousand words , and thereby curtailing the space indispensable for a descrip- tion of the life and cities on the Nile , from the Sea to Assuan , was to generalise upon it in ...
Page 3
... present dynasty replaced it with their mosque , and a palace even worse in taste than the interior of the mosque . Its massive vaults and foundations may yet be seen . The most beautiful buildings in the Citadel are the roofless halls ...
... present dynasty replaced it with their mosque , and a palace even worse in taste than the interior of the mosque . Its massive vaults and foundations may yet be seen . The most beautiful buildings in the Citadel are the roofless halls ...
Page 10
... present a diapering of hoary stone , like the handi- work of the lacemaker or the chaser of precious metals . And , within , there is every antique grace , from the ruins in the hospital of Kalaûn and the tomb of En - Nasr to the resur ...
... present a diapering of hoary stone , like the handi- work of the lacemaker or the chaser of precious metals . And , within , there is every antique grace , from the ruins in the hospital of Kalaûn and the tomb of En - Nasr to the resur ...
Page 32
... present for his master . Ramidge absolutely refused to take him into his service again , even when Mustapha offered to come for nothing . But the next morning Mustapha brought the car to Ramidge's house , so that he should not have the ...
... present for his master . Ramidge absolutely refused to take him into his service again , even when Mustapha offered to come for nothing . But the next morning Mustapha brought the car to Ramidge's house , so that he should not have the ...
Page 37
... presents to you after the visitor is gone . The Berberine does not worry you much with his prayers as a rule : all natives agree in regarding the English as being absolutely without religion of any kind . When a burglar breaks into your ...
... presents to you after the visitor is gone . The Berberine does not worry you much with his prayers as a rule : all natives agree in regarding the English as being absolutely without religion of any kind . When a burglar breaks into your ...
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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