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Page 7
In either case it is sure to be a hot wind , and the air is certain to be thick with the
flying dust . On the edge of the desert the particles cut like fine snow , and facing
the khamasin is anything but a delight . A genuinely hot one produces a curious ...
In either case it is sure to be a hot wind , and the air is certain to be thick with the
flying dust . On the edge of the desert the particles cut like fine snow , and facing
the khamasin is anything but a delight . A genuinely hot one produces a curious ...
Page 9
To be sure , one may make an expedition with camels across the burning sands
to the fertile inland district of the Fayum , and a railroad of sorts now serves to
convey the curious to the deep - lying oasis of Khargeh , which may yet become a
...
To be sure , one may make an expedition with camels across the burning sands
to the fertile inland district of the Fayum , and a railroad of sorts now serves to
convey the curious to the deep - lying oasis of Khargeh , which may yet become a
...
Page 11
... however , it is likely to prove wearing . To be sure , long purses may readily
command the services of a tug , — but if one is to be towed , it might as well be
decided at once to charter a private steamer and be still more the master of one '
s ...
... however , it is likely to prove wearing . To be sure , long purses may readily
command the services of a tug , — but if one is to be towed , it might as well be
decided at once to charter a private steamer and be still more the master of one '
s ...
Page 36
To be sure , the throngs in the street are largely made up of those in the manifold
costumes of the East . The cab drivers are swarthy and wear the tarbush . The
multitude afoot is turbaned and long - robed . But the whole effect of the setting is
...
To be sure , the throngs in the street are largely made up of those in the manifold
costumes of the East . The cab drivers are swarthy and wear the tarbush . The
multitude afoot is turbaned and long - robed . But the whole effect of the setting is
...
Page 39
To be sure , they aver that one Mameluke escaped by causing his horse to leap
through a breach in the parapet to the ravine below - but the point at which this is
now said to have occurred seems inconsistent with the story of the massacre .
To be sure , they aver that one Mameluke escaped by causing his horse to leap
through a breach in the parapet to the ravine below - but the point at which this is
now said to have occurred seems inconsistent with the story of the massacre .
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Egyptian Days |
| Author | Philip Sanford Marden |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin, 1912 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 9 Dec 2008 |
| Length | 329 pages |
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