Egyptian DaysHoughton Mifflin, 1912 - 329 pages |
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Page 67
Philip Sanford Marden. 199 CHAPTER IV . IN AND ABOUT CAIRO AIRO , as already stated , lies almost at the apex CAIR of the Delta of the Nile . The actual division of the river into its two great branches , the Rosetta and Damietta , lies ...
Philip Sanford Marden. 199 CHAPTER IV . IN AND ABOUT CAIRO AIRO , as already stated , lies almost at the apex CAIR of the Delta of the Nile . The actual division of the river into its two great branches , the Rosetta and Damietta , lies ...
Page 82
... already these grow roseate , violet , amethystine in the departing light . The pyramids grow ghostly against the flaming glory of the west . And with the dusk as surely comes the cold . Later we shall have occasion to come to closer ...
... already these grow roseate , violet , amethystine in the departing light . The pyramids grow ghostly against the flaming glory of the west . And with the dusk as surely comes the cold . Later we shall have occasion to come to closer ...
Page 127
... already enormous fane of Ammon , which rises at Karnak a scant two miles from the twin temple of Luxor . Between these great monuments to the prevailing faith runs a magnificent street lined with ram - headed sphinxes , and THE HISTORY ...
... already enormous fane of Ammon , which rises at Karnak a scant two miles from the twin temple of Luxor . Between these great monuments to the prevailing faith runs a magnificent street lined with ram - headed sphinxes , and THE HISTORY ...
Page 137
... already giving presage of the gloom of night . Now there was on the car a smooth - spoken Arab who invited himself , contrary to all regulations , into the compartment reserved for passengers , and who besought us to retain him as guide ...
... already giving presage of the gloom of night . Now there was on the car a smooth - spoken Arab who invited himself , contrary to all regulations , into the compartment reserved for passengers , and who besought us to retain him as guide ...
Page 138
... the spectre of that camel ride sat on my shoulder and served to add a wholly superfluous ele- ment of awe to an occasion already solemn . We had taken a hasty glance at the pyramids before escaping into 138 EGYPTIAN DAYS.
... the spectre of that camel ride sat on my shoulder and served to add a wholly superfluous ele- ment of awe to an occasion already solemn . We had taken a hasty glance at the pyramids before escaping into 138 EGYPTIAN DAYS.
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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