Egyptian DaysHoughton Mifflin, 1912 - 329 pages |
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Page 3
... serve to call attention at the outset to the great and first difficulty that greets one on the threshold of a work like this , namely , that of deciding upon any definite system of transliterating Egyptian names and other needful terms ...
... serve to call attention at the outset to the great and first difficulty that greets one on the threshold of a work like this , namely , that of deciding upon any definite system of transliterating Egyptian names and other needful terms ...
Page 5
... serve to convey a definite idea of an undoubted personage , place , or period . With which prefatory statement , let me turn for a moment to such intro- ductory remarks on Egyptian travel as may seem likely to be useful to the ...
... serve to convey a definite idea of an undoubted personage , place , or period . With which prefatory statement , let me turn for a moment to such intro- ductory remarks on Egyptian travel as may seem likely to be useful to the ...
Page 9
... serves to convey the curious to the deep - lying oasis of Khargeh , which may yet become a spot of com- mon visitation . But apart from these , the visitor will have practically no alternatives save such as are pre- sented by a limited ...
... serves to convey the curious to the deep - lying oasis of Khargeh , which may yet become a spot of com- mon visitation . But apart from these , the visitor will have practically no alternatives save such as are pre- sented by a limited ...
Page 10
... serve only for brief excursions to the east or west of the river . And thus the visitor is left only a broad general ... served , it can be commended only as a means of carriage for those whose ΙΟ EGYPTIAN DAYS.
... serve only for brief excursions to the east or west of the river . And thus the visitor is left only a broad general ... served , it can be commended only as a means of carriage for those whose ΙΟ EGYPTIAN DAYS.
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... for , however , in the simplicity and ease of the journey . A few words of " pidgin " Ara- bic , easily acquired during a brief stay in Cairo , may serve for convenience without being in the least essential to 12 EGYPTIAN DAYS.
... for , however , in the simplicity and ease of the journey . A few words of " pidgin " Ara- bic , easily acquired during a brief stay in Cairo , may serve for convenience without being in the least essential to 12 EGYPTIAN DAYS.
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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