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 xxiii
... stand is inundated . • 326 THE VALLEY OF THE TOMBS OF THE KINGS AT THEBES • The rocks of the exterior , with their noble architectural effects , are little less marvellous than the tombs , some of them as long as a great cathedral ...
... stand is inundated . • 326 THE VALLEY OF THE TOMBS OF THE KINGS AT THEBES • The rocks of the exterior , with their noble architectural effects , are little less marvellous than the tombs , some of them as long as a great cathedral ...
Page 7
... standing in its place , though it was abandoned for the very poor to fill with mud houses till the wise English rule ... stands the famous minaret , with an outside staircase winding round its exterior , for which Ibn Tulun twisted the ...
... standing in its place , though it was abandoned for the very poor to fill with mud houses till the wise English rule ... stands the famous minaret , with an outside staircase winding round its exterior , for which Ibn Tulun twisted the ...
Page 11
... stands where it stood . Behind that is the hall of the fêtes of the harem , like a mosque of Kait Bey , as high as it is long , with mellow - painted ceiling and graceful moresco arches to separate the darses from the sunken floor ...
... stands where it stood . Behind that is the hall of the fêtes of the harem , like a mosque of Kait Bey , as high as it is long , with mellow - painted ceiling and graceful moresco arches to separate the darses from the sunken floor ...
Page 29
... standing his little knowledge of reading and writing . " Another began , " A thousand thanks for your tender letter , which I am sure is the greatest kindness to me . " The subjoined shows the cloven foot of the Levantine . " LADY CR ...
... standing his little knowledge of reading and writing . " Another began , " A thousand thanks for your tender letter , which I am sure is the greatest kindness to me . " The subjoined shows the cloven foot of the Levantine . " LADY CR ...
Page 31
... standing by his bed watching the Berberine doing his valeting . Everything that the Berberine did that morning the Egyptian had done before the Berberine was up the next morning . For a fortnight Ramidge was in clover ; then the ...
... standing by his bed watching the Berberine doing his valeting . Everything that the Berberine did that morning the Egyptian had done before the Berberine was up the next morning . For a fortnight Ramidge was in clover ; then 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