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... King of Kings ; Look on my works , ye Mighty , and despair ! ' Nothing beside
remains . Round the decay Of that colossal wreck , boundless and bare The lone
and level sands stretch far away . SHELLEY { 1 PREFACE T THE primary object
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... King of Kings ; Look on my works , ye Mighty , and despair ! ' Nothing beside
remains . Round the decay Of that colossal wreck , boundless and bare The lone
and level sands stretch far away . SHELLEY { 1 PREFACE T THE primary object
...
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Even when you go around to the back of the Citadel and look out of its narrow
postern , the cliffs still seem sufficiently distant to warrant the use of the present
hill as the location for a fort . Time , however , has changed all that - and to - day
the ...
Even when you go around to the back of the Citadel and look out of its narrow
postern , the cliffs still seem sufficiently distant to warrant the use of the present
hill as the location for a fort . Time , however , has changed all that - and to - day
the ...
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... and reblocking of tarbushes . It looks like a brass cook - stove adorned with
huge , brazen dinner - bells , but if you watch you will see that each dinner - bell
takes apart and that on the inner MOSQUES AND BAZAARS OF CAIRO 49.
... and reblocking of tarbushes . It looks like a brass cook - stove adorned with
huge , brazen dinner - bells , but if you watch you will see that each dinner - bell
takes apart and that on the inner MOSQUES AND BAZAARS OF CAIRO 49.
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The police are everywhere , but they seem not especially efficient . Yonder is an
incipient street fight . It looks ugly . Two men are vociferating in fluent Arabic , and
each has laid a violent hand on the other's robe . Presently they will pull — if it is
...
The police are everywhere , but they seem not especially efficient . Yonder is an
incipient street fight . It looks ugly . Two men are vociferating in fluent Arabic , and
each has laid a violent hand on the other's robe . Presently they will pull — if it is
...
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A sacred bird in his native land is the shoe - bill , and he looks as if he knew it .
He is the most grotesque creature in the world , and at the same time stately
enough for a khedive . At rest , which is most of the time , he is irresistible . On the
walk ...
A sacred bird in his native land is the shoe - bill , and he looks as if he knew it .
He is the most grotesque creature in the world , and at the same time stately
enough for a khedive . At rest , which is most of the time , he is irresistible . On the
walk ...
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Page 105 - 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 105 - ... 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 105 - 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 105 - 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 106 - ... 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 106 - ... 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 58 - ... 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 188 - 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.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Egyptian Days |
| Author | Philip Sanford Marden |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin, 1912 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 12 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 329 pages |
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