Egyptian DaysHoughton Mifflin, 1912 - 329 pages |
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... as is made by many hundred people every year - seems best suited to the scope of the present work . PHILIP SANFORD MARDEN . - LOWELL , MASSACHUSETTS , January 12 , 1912 . CONTENTS PART I I. SOWAHEEN IN EGYPT II . MODERN viii PREFACE.
... as is made by many hundred people every year - seems best suited to the scope of the present work . PHILIP SANFORD MARDEN . - LOWELL , MASSACHUSETTS , January 12 , 1912 . CONTENTS PART I I. SOWAHEEN IN EGYPT II . MODERN viii PREFACE.
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... lem world regards it as the fountain head of all gen- uine knowledge . Just how many students one sees at a single time cannot be guessed , but there are always many hundred . Some are sleeping in the sun 60 EGYPTIAN DAYS.
... lem world regards it as the fountain head of all gen- uine knowledge . Just how many students one sees at a single time cannot be guessed , but there are always many hundred . Some are sleeping in the sun 60 EGYPTIAN DAYS.
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... 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 galleries of the lateral arcades . All the ...
... 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 galleries of the lateral arcades . All the ...
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... hundred usually offer their services , divining by that subtle instinct common to the gamin tribe everywhere , precisely what it is you wish to see . The house is a splendidly preserved old dwelling in the genuine Arabian Nights manner ...
... hundred usually offer their services , divining by that subtle instinct common to the gamin tribe everywhere , precisely what it is you wish to see . The house is a splendidly preserved old dwelling in the genuine Arabian Nights manner ...
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... hundred piastres ( five dollars ) will hardly produce that degree of familiarity in the case of the timorous . There is one other familiar word , heard on every hand , and so expressive that it might with profit be taken over into ...
... hundred piastres ( five dollars ) will hardly produce that degree of familiarity in the case of the timorous . There is one other familiar word , heard on every hand , and so expressive that it might with profit be taken over into ...
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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