Egyptian DaysHoughton Mifflin, 1912 - 329 pages |
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Page 28
... body of the fellaheen , or peasantry in the agricultural districts , they also appear to be a tem- perate , affable , enduring , and reasonably industrious race . They still tolerate plural wedlock , after the teaching of the Prophet ...
... body of the fellaheen , or peasantry in the agricultural districts , they also appear to be a tem- perate , affable , enduring , and reasonably industrious race . They still tolerate plural wedlock , after the teaching of the Prophet ...
Page 55
... body at no other time , at least one shall be so at the hour of prayer . To most of the massive structure surrounding you it will probably be impossible to penetrate , nor will you care to . The building is mainly ruinous and its plan ...
... body at no other time , at least one shall be so at the hour of prayer . To most of the massive structure surrounding you it will probably be impossible to penetrate , nor will you care to . The building is mainly ruinous and its plan ...
Page 61
... body is around ten thousand , with over three hundred " professors . " They come from all the nations that embrace Islam , and the guide indicates the several races as one passes them at their work . The foreign students sleep in the ...
... body is around ten thousand , with over three hundred " professors . " They come from all the nations that embrace Islam , and the guide indicates the several races as one passes them at their work . The foreign students sleep in the ...
Page 84
... body , if he can . None but the honest may succeed ; and it is consid- erably easier for the camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for any person inclined to embonpoint to wriggle through that narrow portal . Apparently the ...
... body , if he can . None but the honest may succeed ; and it is consid- erably easier for the camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for any person inclined to embonpoint to wriggle through that narrow portal . Apparently the ...
Page 89
... present , as con- nected with our mention of this incomparable mu- seum , let us consider nothing but the actual tenants of those tombs- the mummied bodies of the mon- archs who ruled in a day when Mycena was yet IN AND ABOUT CAIRO 89.
... present , as con- nected with our mention of this incomparable mu- seum , let us consider nothing but the actual tenants of those tombs- the mummied bodies of the mon- archs who ruled in a day when Mycena was yet IN AND ABOUT CAIRO 89.
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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 Copts court dead decoration delightful Dendera desert donkey doubtless dragoman Dynasty Edfû Egypt Egyptian erected Esneh eternal face feet feluccas Ghizeh gods Greek Hassan Hatasu Hathor 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 Ptolemaic 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 street Taiyah tarbush temple Thebes thing Thutmosis Thutmosis III tion to-day towers valley visitor walls worship