Queer Things About EgyptRead Books Ltd, 2013 M05 31 - 512 pages Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen was an English author. He studied at Trinity College, Oxford, and went to Australia (1879), where he became the first professor of history in the University of Sydney. Subsequently he traveled much and settled in London as a writer. Poems by Margaret Thomas were included in a work in the 1880s. Sladen takes up his pen to describe the humours of Egyptian society, Egyptian servants, and, above all, the humours and delights of travel in Upper Egypt. He gives glimpses of all the everyday life of the Englishman in Egypt, from doing business (with Egyptians) to donkey-riding. He also devotes several chapters to the eccentricities of the Egyptian Court. The incidents in them were the actual experiences of a very high official and his wife, given to him for publication. Not less interesting to some people than the humours of Egyptian high-life, Egyptian patriotism and Egyptian morality will be the advice on curio-buying in Egypt when you have not much money to spend. The book is not entirely taken up with anecdotes and absurdities. Like Queer Things about Japan and Queer Things about Persia, it devotes half its pages to the monuments, the romance, the mystery, and the poetry of the Orient. The fascination of Egypt is extraordinary; its monuments are matchless. |
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... Cromwell Rhodes had returned to England a Nekla correspondent sent him the following account of what he aptly termed a “strange event”: “While a native from Kafr Awana, which is half a mile from Nekla, Behera, was fast asleep in the ...
... Cromwell Rhodes had returned to England a Nekla correspondent sent him the following account of what he aptly termed a “strange event”: “While a native from Kafr Awana, which is half a mile from Nekla, Behera, was fast asleep in the ...
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... Cromwell Rhodes began, “The Chief Mason Mohammed Ali does his duty with great splendor, notwithstanding his little knowledge of reading and writing.” Another began, “A thousand thanks for your tender letter, which I am sure is the ...
... Cromwell Rhodes began, “The Chief Mason Mohammed Ali does his duty with great splendor, notwithstanding his little knowledge of reading and writing.” Another began, “A thousand thanks for your tender letter, which I am sure is the ...
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... must be the original. 2 Most of the irresistibly humorous incidents of Egyptian life which appear in this volume were related to me by Mr. or Mrs. Cromwell Rhodes, who were long resident in the land of the Phoenix. 1Evil spirit.
... must be the original. 2 Most of the irresistibly humorous incidents of Egyptian life which appear in this volume were related to me by Mr. or Mrs. Cromwell Rhodes, who were long resident in the land of the Phoenix. 1Evil spirit.
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... Cromwell Rhodes. 1 “The voice of the mosquitoe is still heard in the land and she is occupying general public attention. It is therefore a good time to write about her natural history. The mosquitoe, by the way, should always be spoken ...
... Cromwell Rhodes. 1 “The voice of the mosquitoe is still heard in the land and she is occupying general public attention. It is therefore a good time to write about her natural history. The mosquitoe, by the way, should always be spoken ...
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... Cromwell Rhodes, he used to come courting her, Directly he arrived the little nigger boy, whose duty it was to flick the dust off people's boots with an ostrich feather broom, used to rush forward, and say, “Your lady is in the garden ...
... Cromwell Rhodes, he used to come courting her, Directly he arrived the little nigger boy, whose duty it was to flick the dust off people's boots with an ostrich feather broom, used to rush forward, and say, “Your lady is in the garden ...
Contents
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 | |
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