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 xx
... tourists are taken to see . In front are bead and haber- dashery stalls . THE ORIENTAL LOUNGE OF THE CATARACT HOTEL AT ASSUAN Looking out on the Nile and the sunset . 107 THE UNJUST STEWARD : THE JUDGE'S COPTIC CLERK 122 By whom all the ...
... tourists are taken to see . In front are bead and haber- dashery stalls . THE ORIENTAL LOUNGE OF THE CATARACT HOTEL AT ASSUAN Looking out on the Nile and the sunset . 107 THE UNJUST STEWARD : THE JUDGE'S COPTIC CLERK 122 By whom all the ...
Page 40
... tourists well . I , who have in " Egypt and the English " told the Egyptian his faults with uncompromising candour , may perhaps be credited when I confess that I liked the Egyptian servants , who waited on me in various ships and ...
... tourists well . I , who have in " Egypt and the English " told the Egyptian his faults with uncompromising candour , may perhaps be credited when I confess that I liked the Egyptian servants , who waited on me in various ships and ...
Page 41
... tourist wishes to have breakfast uncomfortably early , he has not to hunt up the baker , and get the butter off the ice ; he simply produces biscuits . He can clean boots well : he is noted for the resplendence of his own . But he often ...
... tourist wishes to have breakfast uncomfortably early , he has not to hunt up the baker , and get the butter off the ice ; he simply produces biscuits . He can clean boots well : he is noted for the resplendence of his own . But he often ...
Page 43
... tourists fond of sightseeing do not stand upon this kind of ceremony ; they find them very use- ful when once they have learned where there is likely to be a block . It is prudent to board the tram on the far side of the sticky point ...
... tourists fond of sightseeing do not stand upon this kind of ceremony ; they find them very use- ful when once they have learned where there is likely to be a block . It is prudent to board the tram on the far side of the sticky point ...
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... tourists if I had been willing to give up my afternoons to tea ; but I much prefered seeing the men at their offices instead of their homes , because they were generally able to give up as much time as I wanted for arriving at any ...
... tourists if I had been willing to give up my afternoons to tea ; but I much prefered seeing the men at their offices instead of their homes , because they were generally able to give up as much time as I wanted for arriving at any ...
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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