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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... ASSUAN Looking out on the Nile and the sunset . 107 THE UNJUST STEWARD : THE JUDGE'S COPTIC CLERK 122 By whom all the corruption of justice is managed in Egypt . WOMEN MOURNING This photo was taken at Luxor on the Day of the ...
... ASSUAN Looking out on the Nile and the sunset . 107 THE UNJUST STEWARD : THE JUDGE'S COPTIC CLERK 122 By whom all the corruption of justice is managed in Egypt . WOMEN MOURNING This photo was taken at Luxor on the Day of the ...
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... ASSUAN · On the road to the Great Dam . 365 AN ASSUAN GALLEY AND THE ISLAND OF ELEPHANTINE . • 380 Taken from my bedroom balcony , in the Cataract Hotel . These galleys are of an ancient Roman pattern , hardly changed . A TYPICAL NILE ...
... ASSUAN · On the road to the Great Dam . 365 AN ASSUAN GALLEY AND THE ISLAND OF ELEPHANTINE . • 380 Taken from my bedroom balcony , in the Cataract Hotel . These galleys are of an ancient Roman pattern , hardly changed . A TYPICAL NILE ...
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... Assuan , was to generalise upon it in an introductory essay . My point of view is indicated by the title I have chosen for it , Cairo an Arab City of the Middle Ages . I have an additional reason for relegating this little historical ...
... Assuan , was to generalise upon it in an introductory essay . My point of view is indicated by the title I have chosen for it , Cairo an Arab City of the Middle Ages . I have an additional reason for relegating this little historical ...
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... Assuan and Wady Halfa . Suffragis in Cairo generally wear white galabeahs with red tarbooshes , but particular people prefer a white turban , very big , to a tarboosh , for real blacks . Every servant until he discovers that his master ...
... Assuan and Wady Halfa . Suffragis in Cairo generally wear white galabeahs with red tarbooshes , but particular people prefer a white turban , very big , to a tarboosh , for real blacks . Every servant until he discovers that his master ...
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... Assuan Dam was the greatest mistake Lord Cromer ever made ; that it was erected to swamp two Berberine villages , to which servants , whom he disliked , belonged . No lie about the English is too big or too foolish for the Egyptian to ...
... Assuan Dam was the greatest mistake Lord Cromer ever made ; that it was erected to swamp two Berberine villages , to which servants , whom he disliked , belonged . No lie about the English is too big or too foolish for the Egyptian to ...
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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