Egyptian DaysHoughton Mifflin, 1912 - 329 pages |
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... cemetery that makes greater claim to antiquity than any other fragment of the past that still sur- vives . All these might give to the painstaking sight- seer a good day's work ; but it is the common lot to be whisked away to Cairo by ...
... cemetery that makes greater claim to antiquity than any other fragment of the past that still sur- vives . All these might give to the painstaking sight- seer a good day's work ; but it is the common lot to be whisked away to Cairo by ...
Page 73
... cemeteries . The latter might easily be mistaken for dwellings as one passes them in the dusty tangle of streets . Outwardly they have the appearance of low houses . Inwardly they are quadrangles containing native graves . No cemetery ...
... cemeteries . The latter might easily be mistaken for dwellings as one passes them in the dusty tangle of streets . Outwardly they have the appearance of low houses . Inwardly they are quadrangles containing native graves . No cemetery ...
Page 74
... are so closely hedged about by the hovels and modern cemeteries of the vicinity that they are not especially easy to find ; but once found , they well repay the effort . For example , Kait Bey's mosque is thus 74 EGYPTIAN DAYS.
... are so closely hedged about by the hovels and modern cemeteries of the vicinity that they are not especially easy to find ; but once found , they well repay the effort . For example , Kait Bey's mosque is thus 74 EGYPTIAN DAYS.
Page 89
... cemeteries of Ghizeh and Sakkâra . The gems and jewels and the vast array of accesso- ries which the Egyptian of old caused to be buried with him for use in the happy hereafter we shall have repeated reference to as we go up the Nile ...
... cemeteries of Ghizeh and Sakkâra . The gems and jewels and the vast array of accesso- ries which the Egyptian of old caused to be buried with him for use in the happy hereafter we shall have repeated reference to as we go up the Nile ...
Page 101
... cemeteries . The latter seem to have sprung up as works of necessity at those points where the Nile cliffs offer steep faces of easily worked stone . In arrangement they are invariably much less complicated than the wholly subterranean ...
... cemeteries . The latter seem to have sprung up as works of necessity at those points where the Nile cliffs offer steep faces of easily worked stone . In arrangement they are invariably much less complicated than the wholly subterranean ...
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Abydos Amenhotep Amenhotep III Ammon Ammon-Ra ancient appears Arabs Assiut Assuan backsheesh bank bazaars Beni Hassan body building Cairo camel carved cemetery chapel Cheops Citadel cliffs colossi columns court dead decoration delightful Dendera desert donkey doubtless dragoman Dynasty Edfû Egypt Egyptian erected Esneh eternal face feet feluccas Ghizeh gods Hassan Hatasu Hathor history of Egypt Horus huge hypostyle hall impressive Isis Karnak Khephrên king KOM OMBO land later lofty Luxor magnificent massive mastaba mastaba tomb Memphis midst miles modern Mohammed monarchs monument mortuary mosque Mouski mummy native Nile once Osiris passed Pharaoh Philæ Professor Ptolemies pylon pyramids Rameses Rameses II Ramesseum Raschid ride river rock ruin sacred Sakkâra sands seems seen Seti shrine side sort sowaheen Sphinx spot steamer stone Taiyah tarbush temple Thebes thing Thutmosis Thutmosis III tion to-day towers valley visitor walls worship
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Page 103 - Those who, avoiding great expense, desire the middle way, they prepare in the following manner. When they have charged their syringes with oil made from cedar, they fill the abdomen of the corpse without making any incision or taking out the bowels, but inject it at the fundament ; and having prevented the injection from escaping, they steep the body in natrum for the prescribed number of days, and on the last day they let out from the abdomen the oil of cedar which they had before injected, and...
Page 103 - ... infusion of drugs. Then with a sharp Ethiopian stone they make an incision in the side and take out all the bowels; and having cleansed the abdomen and rinsed it with palm-wine, they next sprinkle it with pounded perfumes. Then, having filled the belly with pure myrrh pounded, and cassia, and other perfumes, frankincense excepted, they sew it up again; and when they have done this they steep it in natrum, leaving it under for seventy days ; for a longer time than this it is not lawful to steep...
Page 103 - First they draw out the brains through the nostrils with an iron hook, taking part of it out in this manner, the rest by the infusion of drugs. Then with a sharp Ethiopian stone they make an incision in the side, and take out all the bowels; and having cleansed the abdomen and rinsed it with palm wine, they next sprinkle it with pounded perfumes. Then having filled the belly with pure myrrh pounded, and cassia, and other perfumes, frankincense excepted, they sew it up again; and when they have done...
Page 103 - Then having filled the belly with pure myrrh pounded, and cassia, and other perfumes, frankincense excepted, they sew it up again ; and when they have done this, they steep it in natrum, leaving it under for seventy days ; for a longer time than this it is not lawful to steep it. At the expiration of the seventy days they wash the corpse, and wrap the whole body in bandages of flaxen cloth, smearing it with gum, which the Egyptians commonly use instead of glue. After this the relations, having taken...
Page 104 - ... from escaping, they steep the body in natrum for the prescribed number of days, and on the last day they let out from the abdomen the oil of cedar which they had before injected, and it has such power that it brings away the intestines and vitals in a state of dissolution ; the natrum dissolves the flesh, and nothing of the body remains but the skin and the bones.
Page 104 - ... which they had before injected, and it has such power that it brings away the intestines and vitals in a state of dissolution ; the natrum dissolves the flesh, and nothing of the body remains but the skin and the bones. When they have done this they return the body without any further operation.
Page 56 - ... window-ledge just over the spot where condemned criminals were wont to be garroted in the brave days of old, intent on securing a picture of the old gate, the Red Mosque behind, the stream of passing traffic below, and the soaring minaret above, — but all in vain. It was a dismal failure. In no city are street scenes more difficult to photograph than in Cairo, where the upper air is so brilliant and the lower levels so shrouded in shadow.
Page 186 - I fancy this occasional contact with the African continent under our feet will become so common an occurrence that we shall soon pay little heed to it.