Egyptian DaysHoughton Mifflin, 1912 - 329 pages |
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Page 16
... huge porous jar , which process cools as well as purifies . Native cows ' milk is only safe when properly boiled , and the safest butter is that which is imported . These details are set down here simply because they seem to me to ...
... huge porous jar , which process cools as well as purifies . Native cows ' milk is only safe when properly boiled , and the safest butter is that which is imported . These details are set down here simply because they seem to me to ...
Page 24
... huge water - wheels carrying chaplets of earthen jars and moved by a patiently plodding beast on the bank above , or by the employ- ment of a series of well - sweeps worked by human hands . The former , an illustration of which is given ...
... huge water - wheels carrying chaplets of earthen jars and moved by a patiently plodding beast on the bank above , or by the employ- ment of a series of well - sweeps worked by human hands . The former , an illustration of which is given ...
Page 35
... huge mosque flanked by two lofty minarets . The tawny cliffs be- hind afford an appropriate desert setting . The pyra- mids of Ghizeh may be descried , dim and majestic , to the west , behind a foreground of waving palms . It is almost ...
... huge mosque flanked by two lofty minarets . The tawny cliffs be- hind afford an appropriate desert setting . The pyra- mids of Ghizeh may be descried , dim and majestic , to the west , behind a foreground of waving palms . It is almost ...
Page 38
... huge mosque of Sultan Hassan just below . Never- theless it is a splendid eminence , crowned with a grim old fort and a tomb - mosque of which more will be said shortly . There are various ways of going in , according to circumstances ...
... huge mosque of Sultan Hassan just below . Never- theless it is a splendid eminence , crowned with a grim old fort and a tomb - mosque of which more will be said shortly . There are various ways of going in , according to circumstances ...
Page 42
... huge Byzan- tine lantern high above the central dome . It is like an enormous state apartment , despite its lofty pulpit at one side . It is florid and gaudy . Tap one of the panels or pilasters surreptitiously , and you will dis- cover ...
... huge Byzan- tine lantern high above the central dome . It is like an enormous state apartment , despite its lofty pulpit at one side . It is florid and gaudy . Tap one of the panels or pilasters surreptitiously , and you will dis- cover ...
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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