Egyptian DaysHoughton Mifflin, 1912 - 329 pages |
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Page 26
... past , the demands of living humanity must inevitably outweigh every such consideration . The task of reclaiming deserts seems to appeal with un- common insistence to our present generation - far more so than the task of unraveling ...
... past , the demands of living humanity must inevitably outweigh every such consideration . The task of reclaiming deserts seems to appeal with un- common insistence to our present generation - far more so than the task of unraveling ...
Page 31
... past that still sur- vives . All these might 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 ...
... past that still sur- vives . All these might 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 ...
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... past the museum and the barracks to where the great Nile bridge reared its imposing por- tals crowned with majestic bronze lions . The river flowed muddily below , giving back from its ripples the broken reflection of the waning moon ...
... past the museum and the barracks to where the great Nile bridge reared its imposing por- tals crowned with majestic bronze lions . The river flowed muddily below , giving back from its ripples the broken reflection of the waning moon ...
Page 43
... past Shepheard's that one first meets the real East — an East that is largely on parade for the delectation of the sowaheen , to be sure , but genuine for all that . - Before the broad veranda of the famous hostelry passes MOSQUES AND ...
... past Shepheard's that one first meets the real East — an East that is largely on parade for the delectation of the sowaheen , to be sure , but genuine for all that . - Before the broad veranda of the famous hostelry passes MOSQUES AND ...
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... past , his goatskin dripping coolly from across his bent back . You regret that you saw a fellow like him filling a skin that morning in the garbage - infested backwaters of the Nile bank ! Still another itinerant vender offers a red ...
... past , his goatskin dripping coolly from across his bent back . You regret that you saw a fellow like him filling a skin that morning in the garbage - infested backwaters of the Nile bank ! Still another itinerant vender offers a red ...
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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