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 xix
... VILLAGE LARDER In this , made of mud , the guileless Egyptian puts his corn and vegetables to keep them from the goats , and his children , to keep them from the snakes and scorpions . It looks like a font for the baptism of a giant ...
... VILLAGE LARDER In this , made of mud , the guileless Egyptian puts his corn and vegetables to keep them from the goats , and his children , to keep them from the snakes and scorpions . It looks like a font for the baptism of a giant ...
Page xx
... village in the background is Ebshawai . THE PROCESSION OF EGYPT • • Fellahin riding in from Karnak to market at Luxor . 76 77 84 A GYASSA SAILING UP THE NILE 85 THE BARBER'S SHOP IN THE CATTLE - MARKET AT LUXOR . 94 THE CAMEL MARKET AT ...
... village in the background is Ebshawai . THE PROCESSION OF EGYPT • • Fellahin riding in from Karnak to market at Luxor . 76 77 84 A GYASSA SAILING UP THE NILE 85 THE BARBER'S SHOP IN THE CATTLE - MARKET AT LUXOR . 94 THE CAMEL MARKET AT ...
Page xxi
... some of the few domestic buildings left of the ancient village of 5,000 inhabitants out of which Mehemet Ali developed his great seaport . 210 211 FACING PAGE THE AVENUE OF SPHINXES AND PTOLEMAIC PYLON AT List of Illustrations xxi.
... some of the few domestic buildings left of the ancient village of 5,000 inhabitants out of which Mehemet Ali developed his great seaport . 210 211 FACING PAGE THE AVENUE OF SPHINXES AND PTOLEMAIC PYLON AT List of Illustrations xxi.
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... village at the foot of the Hawara Pyramid . THE VILLAGE OF KURNA AND ITS FELLAHIN ON THE PLAIN OF THEBES GYASSAS ON THE NILE · With the hills of Thebes in the background . 239 250 251 KHARGA VILLAGE , IN THE GREAT OASIS OF THE LIBYAN ...
... village at the foot of the Hawara Pyramid . THE VILLAGE OF KURNA AND ITS FELLAHIN ON THE PLAIN OF THEBES GYASSAS ON THE NILE · With the hills of Thebes in the background . 239 250 251 KHARGA VILLAGE , IN THE GREAT OASIS OF THE LIBYAN ...
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... IDEA 413 Taken at the village just outside Karnak . The idea of these boys is to make small piastres by stripping to run races or pose for the Kodaker . 16 Da Med Queer Things About Egypt M INTRODUCTION Cairo List of Illustrations xxiii.
... IDEA 413 Taken at the village just outside Karnak . The idea of these boys is to make small piastres by stripping to run races or pose for the Kodaker . 16 Da Med Queer Things About Egypt M INTRODUCTION Cairo List of Illustrations xxiii.
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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