Egyptian DaysHoughton Mifflin, 1912 - 329 pages |
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... may seem most convenient to the needs of other " sowaheen " visit- ing Egypt for the first time in the same case with myself ; to wit , unlearned in the archæology of the land , untutored in the minutiae of its history , 4 EGYPTIAN DAYS.
... may seem most convenient to the needs of other " sowaheen " visit- ing Egypt for the first time in the same case with myself ; to wit , unlearned in the archæology of the land , untutored in the minutiae of its history , 4 EGYPTIAN DAYS.
Page 5
... Egyptian travel as may seem likely to be useful to the individual " sowâh . " The vast majority of people who visit Egypt do so , I suppose , because of the intense historic interest of the country and because of the overmastering ...
... Egyptian travel as may seem likely to be useful to the individual " sowâh . " The vast majority of people who visit Egypt do so , I suppose , because of the intense historic interest of the country and because of the overmastering ...
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... Egypt is capable of bearing length of days in her right hand . Imprudently trifled with , she is as in- exorable as New England herself . And the greatest danger of the Egyptian climate is , I am convinced , to those robust souls whose ...
... Egypt is capable of bearing length of days in her right hand . Imprudently trifled with , she is as in- exorable as New England herself . And the greatest danger of the Egyptian climate is , I am convinced , to those robust souls whose ...
Page 8
... Egypt , but when one has dismissed it from the table of his narration the worst has been said of the country's climate . Let it not be assumed that the khamasin is unduly frequent , or insupportable ... Egypt means simply the 8 EGYPTIAN DAYS.
... Egypt , but when one has dismissed it from the table of his narration the worst has been said of the country's climate . Let it not be assumed that the khamasin is unduly frequent , or insupportable ... Egypt means simply the 8 EGYPTIAN DAYS.
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... Egypt may once have boasted as referring to the ancient civilization have either vanished under the hand of an obelisk - hunting generation or have sunk to obliv- ion in the accretions of Nile mud . To be sure , one may make an ...
... Egypt may once have boasted as referring to the ancient civilization have either vanished under the hand of an obelisk - hunting generation or have sunk to obliv- ion in the accretions of Nile mud . To be sure , one may make an ...
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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