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 10
... antique grace , from the ruins in the hospital of Kalaûn and the tomb of En - Nasr to the resur- rection of medieval art , from its ashes in Kalaûn's mosque , and the imperishable splendour of the fifteenth century . There are the ruins ...
... antique grace , from the ruins in the hospital of Kalaûn and the tomb of En - Nasr to the resur- rection of medieval art , from its ashes in Kalaûn's mosque , and the imperishable splendour of the fifteenth century . There are the ruins ...
Page 123
... The sight of even an antique temple shocks them . They say it looks too civilised . It is nothing to them that the civilisation broke off in a barbaric invasion of two thousand years On the Humours of Egyptian Hotels 123.
... The sight of even an antique temple shocks them . They say it looks too civilised . It is nothing to them that the civilisation broke off in a barbaric invasion of two thousand years On the Humours of Egyptian Hotels 123.
Page 148
... antique patterns , cost only two or three shillings a pair . Besides these , you can buy at their proper value silver Mohammedan charms , Nubian necklaces , turquoise rings , and the like . But the last you can get in Cairo as good and ...
... antique patterns , cost only two or three shillings a pair . Besides these , you can buy at their proper value silver Mohammedan charms , Nubian necklaces , turquoise rings , and the like . But the last you can get in Cairo as good and ...
Page 158
... antique cistern in the Rue d'Allemagne , not very far from the museum . It is subterranean , about fifty feet long , and a little less in width and height . Its inside is rather like a church ; it has three tiers of arches with stone ...
... antique cistern in the Rue d'Allemagne , not very far from the museum . It is subterranean , about fifty feet long , and a little less in width and height . Its inside is rather like a church ; it has three tiers of arches with stone ...
Page 196
... antique columns , Damietta houses are built of wood . At a glance one can see that woodwork is the speciality of Damietta . Instead of ordinary meshrebiya , some of the houses had massive lattices of carved hard - wood like the screens ...
... antique columns , Damietta houses are built of wood . At a glance one can see that woodwork is the speciality of Damietta . Instead of ordinary meshrebiya , some of the houses had massive lattices of carved hard - wood like the screens ...
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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