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 146
... Bazar , where they take advantage of the ignorance of tourists . The proper place to go for them is some shop like that kept by the Assuan Turk , at the end of the Tentmakers ' Bazar , which is farthest away from the Bab - es - Zuweyla ...
... Bazar , where they take advantage of the ignorance of tourists . The proper place to go for them is some shop like that kept by the Assuan Turk , at the end of the Tentmakers ' Bazar , which is farthest away from the Bab - es - Zuweyla ...
Page 147
... bazar , because , as there is only a very low duty on scents in Cairo , you can get the scents of the best English ... Bazar in my chapters on the Winter City . The Luxor Bazar is neither so well known , so attractive , nor so ...
... bazar , because , as there is only a very low duty on scents in Cairo , you can get the scents of the best English ... Bazar in my chapters on the Winter City . The Luxor Bazar is neither so well known , so attractive , nor so ...
Page 197
... bazar for a mile and a half , no longer exist , though Rosetta is so rich in them . Damietta is a primitive place ; it has no drains , but a ditch a foot wide running down each side of the street . It is such a very native place that ...
... bazar for a mile and a half , no longer exist , though Rosetta is so rich in them . Damietta is a primitive place ; it has no drains , but a ditch a foot wide running down each side of the street . It is such a very native place that ...
Page 198
... bazar , much more ornamental and Oriental than the principal bazar , and a very busy fish- market , where they really sold fish , unlike the Cairo Fish- market . Near Old Damietta was in such a very fragmentary condition , that we had ...
... bazar , much more ornamental and Oriental than the principal bazar , and a very busy fish- market , where they really sold fish , unlike the Cairo Fish- market . Near Old Damietta was in such a very fragmentary condition , that we had ...
Page 213
... bazar is a city of one age - a city of these noble old mansions of Arabian art , with long colonnades recalling the hypostyle halls of the ancient Egyptian temples . Their brick is of a curious dark red . Without the firing , which ...
... bazar is a city of one age - a city of these noble old mansions of Arabian art , with long colonnades recalling the hypostyle halls of the ancient Egyptian temples . Their brick is of a curious dark red . Without the firing , which ...
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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