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 36
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. EXIT EGYPT . the boy , and found him asleep on the couch. Fellah in his ordinary costume , riding a donkey . AT DAMIETTA . Forage ass. [ P. 37.
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. EXIT EGYPT . the boy , and found him asleep on the couch. Fellah in his ordinary costume , riding a donkey . AT DAMIETTA . Forage ass. [ P. 37.
Page 40
... Damietta gave us the best cooking we had in Egypt . I expect that he had a native cook , though all the big hotels have European chefs . The Egyptian suffragi may not earn his wages well , but he earns his bakshish from the tourists ...
... Damietta gave us the best cooking we had in Egypt . I expect that he had a native cook , though all the big hotels have European chefs . The Egyptian suffragi may not earn his wages well , but he earns his bakshish from the tourists ...
Page 42
... Damietta , " al- ways live in flats or hotels . The other class live in pensions sometimes . " I asked him what he meant by the other class . He said , " Oh , clerks , and people in shops . " They too , of course , live for the most ...
... Damietta , " al- ways live in flats or hotels . The other class live in pensions sometimes . " I asked him what he meant by the other class . He said , " Oh , clerks , and people in shops . " They too , of course , live for the most ...
Page 44
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. protesting . mate of society in Egypt . " Society is backbiting. AT DAMIETTA . Forage ass FELLAHIN CHILDREN WATCHING THE FOREIGNERS RIDE PAST . [ p . 45.
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. protesting . mate of society in Egypt . " Society is backbiting. AT DAMIETTA . Forage ass FELLAHIN CHILDREN WATCHING THE FOREIGNERS RIDE PAST . [ p . 45.
Page 114
... Damietta : the best were very expensive , the worst were the most amusing . The strangest humour we struck in an hotel was an Italian hotel - keeper , who kept every one in terror but her guests . She had an overreaching and ...
... Damietta : the best were very expensive , the worst were the most amusing . The strangest humour we struck in an hotel was an Italian hotel - keeper , who kept every one in terror but her guests . She had an overreaching and ...
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