Queer Things about EgyptHurst & blackett, Limited, 1911 - 428 pages This book is filled with varied information about Egypt. Everything is touched upon—the people, their customs, and manner of writing English, descriptions of scenery, history and social conditions—in the manner of a well informed traveler willing to tell all he knows. 1t is an entertaining book, and one which a visitor to Egypt could hardly afford to be without, especially the seekers of recreation in perusing passages of sprightly talk about things new and old, maintained by a man who is likely to have cheered many a table and fireside by his traveler's tales. |
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Page 62
... Agenoria had a German maid for a while , who had been at the Mena House from November to the first of May , and had never once been to the Pyramids . It was not for want of spirit apparently , because Agenoria heard her having an ...
... Agenoria had a German maid for a while , who had been at the Mena House from November to the first of May , and had never once been to the Pyramids . It was not for want of spirit apparently , because Agenoria heard her having an ...
Page 63
... Agenoria inquired . " Go to a restaurant , madam , and have a good dinner . " On another occasion Agenoria asked the same old woman , who spoke a little queer English , " Won't you have some milk ? " " No , I can't bear that bullock's ...
... Agenoria inquired . " Go to a restaurant , madam , and have a good dinner . " On another occasion Agenoria asked the same old woman , who spoke a little queer English , " Won't you have some milk ? " " No , I can't bear that bullock's ...
Page 64
... Agenoria saw him about a year afterwards , a meek , thin thing , though he had been extremely fat when he could not " stand those women . " It was high time that he stood outside the door , for , when Agenoria was going into her new ...
... Agenoria saw him about a year afterwards , a meek , thin thing , though he had been extremely fat when he could not " stand those women . " It was high time that he stood outside the door , for , when Agenoria was going into her new ...
Page 76
... Agenoria came home to the palace , which she had bought from the Pasha , she generally found some- body loafing about the garden with a couple of gazelles or a couple of flamingoes , or some turkeys . They dumped them down till the ...
... Agenoria came home to the palace , which she had bought from the Pasha , she generally found some- body loafing about the garden with a couple of gazelles or a couple of flamingoes , or some turkeys . They dumped them down till the ...
Page 78
... Agenoria's day ; he affected Agenoria a great deal . " Oh , Mrs. Rhodes , " he said , " you do know how to have jolly fun . " She always humoured him , and treated him with extreme politeness . Once she got him to her house for ping ...
... Agenoria's day ; he affected Agenoria a great deal . " Oh , Mrs. Rhodes , " he said , " you do know how to have jolly fun . " She always humoured him , and treated him with extreme politeness . Once she got him to her house for ping ...
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Abûkir Abydos Agenoria Alexandria ancient ancient Egypt ANGELES antique Antony Arab asked Assuan bakshish bank bazar beautiful Berberine blue built Cæsar Cairo CALIFORN called camels canal Cataract Hotel charming Cleopatra colonnades colour columns cook Cook's Coptic dahabeah Damietta Denderah Der-el-Bahari desert donkey donkey-boys dragoman Edfu Egyptian English Fayum feet fellahin French galabeah garden Greek humours hundred Italian Joseph Julius Cæsar Karnak Khedive King ladies lake land LIBRARY live look Luxor mediæval Mehemet Ali meshrebiya miles minarets Mohammed Mohammedan mosque mummy native never night Nile oasis Osiris palace palm groves Pasha Pharaohs photographs piastres picturesque police Ptolemies pylon railway Rameses Ramidge rich riding river Roman roof Rosetta round ruins sand servants shillings side steamer Sudan suffragi tarbooshes temple Thebes thing tombs took tourists Upper Egypt village walls women