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 83
... Italian Consul - General's wife came , the only other European lady . She wore her own dress . Then the Princess came and " fished out " Agenoria . What was the unfortunate victim to do ? She could not speak Turkish , so it was decided ...
... Italian Consul - General's wife came , the only other European lady . She wore her own dress . Then the Princess came and " fished out " Agenoria . What was the unfortunate victim to do ? She could not speak Turkish , so it was decided ...
Page 107
... Italian named Noseda ( whom the English called Nosy ) living in Alexandria , who made his living by giving lessons on the guitar . He played very badly ; but this did not matter , because it made it easier for the people he was teaching ...
... Italian named Noseda ( whom the English called Nosy ) living in Alexandria , who made his living by giving lessons on the guitar . He played very badly ; but this did not matter , because it made it easier for the people he was teaching ...
Page 114
... Italian and Arabic , and Italians and Arabs are the least profitable customers for an Egyptian hotel . They pay little , demand much , and refuse to be hoodwinked . The English know less about prices , and grumble for their own ...
... Italian and Arabic , and Italians and Arabs are the least profitable customers for an Egyptian hotel . They pay little , demand much , and refuse to be hoodwinked . The English know less about prices , and grumble for their own ...
Page 115
... Italian vituperation . He defied her she went to her office and fetched a revolver ; he was not impressed , he had such confidence in the British régime . But when she opened fire he fled incontinently to fetch the police to help him to ...
... Italian vituperation . He defied her she went to her office and fetched a revolver ; he was not impressed , he had such confidence in the British régime . But when she opened fire he fled incontinently to fetch the police to help him to ...
Page 120
... Italian woman would be , although she had wrapped it up in a discarded chemise , so that she could not see it . I said to Flora that if the head was only going to rest on the top of a wardrobe it might just as well rest on the top of my ...
... Italian woman would be , although she had wrapped it up in a discarded chemise , so that she could not see it . I said to Flora that if the head was only going to rest on the top of a wardrobe it might just as well rest on the top of my ...
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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