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 22
... better than I eat the white bread and meat for specially my wish . I can walk throught the desert with my pistol in my hand and not to fear any fierce animal even in day , and night specially for my wish . My wish will be the best I see ...
... better than I eat the white bread and meat for specially my wish . I can walk throught the desert with my pistol in my hand and not to fear any fierce animal even in day , and night specially for my wish . My wish will be the best I see ...
Page 37
... better servant for ever after . Berberine servants are really very good cooks , but they steal your clothes . The Egyptian suffragi is original in one way he prefers to wear his shirt outside his trousers . If you have bright socks they ...
... better servant for ever after . Berberine servants are really very good cooks , but they steal your clothes . The Egyptian suffragi is original in one way he prefers to wear his shirt outside his trousers . If you have bright socks they ...
Page 40
... better than Japanese servants ; and I found them very pleasant to deal with . As a footman the Egyptian is excellent . When you drive up to a resident's house , you are met by a handsome and dignified man in a beautiful dress ...
... better than Japanese servants ; and I found them very pleasant to deal with . As a footman the Egyptian is excellent . When you drive up to a resident's house , you are met by a handsome and dignified man in a beautiful dress ...
Page 55
... better get used to it . " Was there ever a more histrionic appeal to the feelings ? Agenoria was stony - hearted , however ; she knew the Egyp- tian's tricks far too well to want to have one in England . She had a narrow escape of ...
... better get used to it . " Was there ever a more histrionic appeal to the feelings ? Agenoria was stony - hearted , however ; she knew the Egyp- tian's tricks far too well to want to have one in England . She had a narrow escape of ...
Page 57
... better give you a receipt . He said , " No ; all right with you ; all people always coming into my house . " But she pro- tested , " No , you see me seal this up , " and asked him his name to write upon it . " Gladyos Morgan , a Copt ...
... better give you a receipt . He said , " No ; all right with you ; all people always coming into my house . " But she pro- tested , " No , you see me seal this up , " and asked him his name to write upon it . " Gladyos Morgan , a Copt ...
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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