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 159
... kings of Pergamus , that the Egyptian monarchs forbade the exportation of papyrus from Egypt to Pergamus , in the hopes of stopping the reproduction of books there . The Attalids met the situation by using the skins of sheep : these ...
... kings of Pergamus , that the Egyptian monarchs forbade the exportation of papyrus from Egypt to Pergamus , in the hopes of stopping the reproduction of books there . The Attalids met the situation by using the skins of sheep : these ...
Page 183
... Shakespeare made Charmian say of Cleopatra : It is well done , and fitting for a princess Descended of so many royal kings . TOU CHAPTER XX The Egyptian State Railways OURISTS do not Some Reflections on the Forgotten Cleopatra 183.
... Shakespeare made Charmian say of Cleopatra : It is well done , and fitting for a princess Descended of so many royal kings . TOU CHAPTER XX The Egyptian State Railways OURISTS do not Some Reflections on the Forgotten Cleopatra 183.
Page 191
... kings of Egypt came to an end . He was conquered by the Persians , who were conquered by the Macedonians . Alexander was succeeded by the Ptolemies , and the Ptolemies by the Roman Emperors . Only four or five miles from Samanud are the ...
... kings of Egypt came to an end . He was conquered by the Persians , who were conquered by the Macedonians . Alexander was succeeded by the Ptolemies , and the Ptolemies by the Roman Emperors . Only four or five miles from Samanud are the ...
Page 197
... King John of Jerusalem nearly seven hundred years ago , or , at all events , when St. Louis occupied it , exactly six hundred and sixty years ago . It belongs to the day when Damietta was famous for its leather and weaving and oil of ...
... King John of Jerusalem nearly seven hundred years ago , or , at all events , when St. Louis occupied it , exactly six hundred and sixty years ago . It belongs to the day when Damietta was famous for its leather and weaving and oil of ...
Page 231
... king and the puissant seigneurs of the Court of Memphis , on account of the great power which he wielded and the affection entertained for him by his monarch . They accord- ingly thus addressed the king : ' Great king , Joseph is now ...
... king and the puissant seigneurs of the Court of Memphis , on account of the great power which he wielded and the affection entertained for him by his monarch . They accord- ingly thus addressed the king : ' Great king , Joseph is now ...
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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