Egyptian DaysHoughton Mifflin, 1912 - 329 pages |
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Page 13
... - guages and placed conspicuously in each vehicle . Personal safety is a question that gives one no concern . As for seasons , no doubt can exist that the proper time to see Egypt at its best is " between SOWAHEEN IN EGYPT 13.
... - guages and placed conspicuously in each vehicle . Personal safety is a question that gives one no concern . As for seasons , no doubt can exist that the proper time to see Egypt at its best is " between SOWAHEEN IN EGYPT 13.
Page 14
... give for visiting any other country ; to wit , go to Egypt just as you would go anywhere else , guided by your native com- mon sense . Unless you venture into Egypt later than March , it is not likely to be a tropical climate . Hel ...
... give for visiting any other country ; to wit , go to Egypt just as you would go anywhere else , guided by your native com- mon sense . Unless you venture into Egypt later than March , it is not likely to be a tropical climate . Hel ...
Page 31
... give to the painstaking sight- seer a good day's work ; but it is the common lot to be whisked away to Cairo by the steamboat special , leaving of Alexandria no more than the confused im- pression of a busy , modern port , a harbor ...
... give to the painstaking sight- seer a good day's work ; but it is the common lot to be whisked away to Cairo by the steamboat special , leaving of Alexandria no more than the confused im- pression of a busy , modern port , a harbor ...
Page 41
... give to the mosque its colloquial name - the Alabaster Mosque . A little knot of men squat at its narrow door , selling tickets of admission and tying on the necessary yellow shoes - for never may one set trim Christian boots within the ...
... give to the mosque its colloquial name - the Alabaster Mosque . A little knot of men squat at its narrow door , selling tickets of admission and tying on the necessary yellow shoes - for never may one set trim Christian boots within the ...
Page 42
... gives more the impression of a palace than a mosque . It is carpeted with thick rugs , and heavy curtains are hung all about . Great chandeliers depend from the roof , and daylight filters down from the huge Byzan- tine lantern high ...
... gives more the impression of a palace than a mosque . It is carpeted with thick rugs , and heavy curtains are hung all about . Great chandeliers depend from the roof , and daylight filters down from the huge Byzan- tine lantern high ...
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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