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 197
... Mehemet Ali killed it by diverting the produce of the Nile along the Mahmudiya Canal to Alexandria . The Abu'l - Ma'ata mosque has the appearance of being abandoned , though it is kept locked from beggars and children , a consideration ...
... Mehemet Ali killed it by diverting the produce of the Nile along the Mahmudiya Canal to Alexandria . The Abu'l - Ma'ata mosque has the appearance of being abandoned , though it is kept locked from beggars and children , a consideration ...
Page 209
... Mehemet Ali , with the magician's wand of a far - seeing autocrat , into a city of a thousand inhabitants for every day in the year . To match it one would have to go to the Flanders of the Van Dycks : it is made up of old burnt - brick ...
... Mehemet Ali , with the magician's wand of a far - seeing autocrat , into a city of a thousand inhabitants for every day in the year . To match it one would have to go to the Flanders of the Van Dycks : it is made up of old burnt - brick ...
Page 210
... Mehemet Ali developed his great seaport . p . 211 ] burnt confers much distinction on it , for Egypt is.
... Mehemet Ali developed his great seaport . p . 211 ] burnt confers much distinction on it , for Egypt is.
Page 213
... Mehemet Ali wrested Egypt from the Turk had five times the population of Alexandria . The Nile bears nothing more important on its bosom than gyassas of artisans or peasants , but the native craft are launched , and repaired , and ...
... Mehemet Ali wrested Egypt from the Turk had five times the population of Alexandria . The Nile bears nothing more important on its bosom than gyassas of artisans or peasants , but the native craft are launched , and repaired , and ...
Page 422
... Mehemet Ali on the Citadel , which is avowedly a modern imitation of the mosques of Constantinople . As a class , Egyptian minarets are low , rising but little above the roofs of the mosques . In his anxiety to gird at the English , M ...
... Mehemet Ali on the Citadel , which is avowedly a modern imitation of the mosques of Constantinople . As a class , Egyptian minarets are low , rising but little above the roofs of the mosques . In his anxiety to gird at the English , M ...
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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