Queer Things About EgyptJazzybee Verlag, 2019 - 512 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. It 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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... Berberine servants. When Ramidge woke the first morning, the cleaner of motor-cars was standing by his bed watching the Berberine doing his valeting. Everything that the Berberine did that morning the Egyptian had done before the Berberine ...
... Berberine servants. When Ramidge woke the first morning, the cleaner of motor-cars was standing by his bed watching the Berberine doing his valeting. Everything that the Berberine did that morning the Egyptian had done before the Berberine ...
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... was nearly perfect. He effected the discharge of one Berberine, and the other, though he was twice his size, was terrified of him. He took entire charge of Ramidge's valeting. When Ramidge came back from England, he could.
... was nearly perfect. He effected the discharge of one Berberine, and the other, though he was twice his size, was terrified of him. He took entire charge of Ramidge's valeting. When Ramidge came back from England, he could.
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... Berberine servants have likes and dislikes in other matters beside walking-canes, about which they are very particular. A Berberine will buy a cane and a pair of lemon-coloured kid boots before he has enough to eat—in Cairo. They adore ...
... Berberine servants have likes and dislikes in other matters beside walking-canes, about which they are very particular. A Berberine will buy a cane and a pair of lemon-coloured kid boots before he has enough to eat—in Cairo. They adore ...
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... Berberine, who cannot speak any European language. Flat life is greatly on the increase among Greeks and other lower-class nations. They take a lodger for one or two rooms, and make him pay the whole rent, and live in the rest. Nearly ...
... Berberine, who cannot speak any European language. Flat life is greatly on the increase among Greeks and other lower-class nations. They take a lodger for one or two rooms, and make him pay the whole rent, and live in the rest. Nearly ...
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... Berberine conversation which I heard was that the erection of the Assuan Dam was the greatest mistake Lord Cromer ever made; that it was erected to swamp two Berberine villages, to which servants, whom he disliked, belonged. No lie ...
... Berberine conversation which I heard was that the erection of the Assuan Dam was the greatest mistake Lord Cromer ever made; that it was erected to swamp two Berberine villages, to which servants, whom he disliked, belonged. No lie ...
Contents
Queer Things About Cairo Society | |
The Woes of the Egyptian Housekeeper | |
More about Agenorias Servants | |
The Egyptian State Railways | |
Damietta | |
Rosetta | |
Abûkir and the Battle of the Nile | |
A Visit to the Fayum the Land of a Thousand Days | |
Assyut and Abydos | |
Crossing the Libyan Desert to the Great | |
Oasis CHAPTER XXVII The Marvels of the Great Oasis | |
Doing Business with Egyptians | |
The Pasha | |
The Naughty Princess | |
Chips from the Court | |
The Man About Town in Egypt | |
The Humours of the Country Egyptian | |
The Gyps at Home | |
On the Humours of Egyptian Hotels | |
The Egyptians Idea of Serving His Country | |
Of the Humours of Egyptian Donkeyboys | |
On the Most Interesting Things to Buy in Egypt if you have not much to Spend | |
FROM ALEXANDRIA TO ASSUAN | |
Some Reflections on the Forgotten Cleopatra | |
Cleopatras Temple of Denderah | |
Luxor the City of the Lotuseater | |
The Tombs of the Pharaohs at Thebes | |
Hundredpyloned Thebes | |
Three Great Temples Esna Edfu and Komombo | |
Assuan the City of the Idle Wealthy | |
The Great Dam of Assuan | |
Elephantine | |
Philæ the Melted Pearl | |
The Humours and the Beauties of the Nile as seen from Cooks Steamers | |
Life at Luxor | |
The Ruins of Karnak | |
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