The Nile-- notes for travellers in EgyptT. Cook & Son (Egypt), 1907 - 955 pages |
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Page 84
... body of soldiers to seize the Eastern Sûdân , and these entered the country by way of Sawâkin and Masawa . They marched to Sennaar , on the Blue Nile , where they found the newly established Fûng Kingdom . The Fûngs succeeded in making ...
... body of soldiers to seize the Eastern Sûdân , and these entered the country by way of Sawâkin and Masawa . They marched to Sennaar , on the Blue Nile , where they found the newly established Fûng Kingdom . The Fûngs succeeded in making ...
Page 86
... body of troops to fight against the French , and enjoyed at that time the rank of major ( bimbashi ) ; he married the daughter of the governor of his native town , and by her had three sons , Ibrâhîm , Țusûn , and Ismâ'îl . 1807 ...
... body of troops to fight against the French , and enjoyed at that time the rank of major ( bimbashi ) ; he married the daughter of the governor of his native town , and by her had three sons , Ibrâhîm , Țusûn , and Ismâ'îl . 1807 ...
Page 98
... body was left in the garden for a whole day , and thousands of Dervishes came and plunged their spears into it ; later the head was thrown into a well . On February 13 the British troops , including those which had marched with General ...
... body was left in the garden for a whole day , and thousands of Dervishes came and plunged their spears into it ; later the head was thrown into a well . On February 13 the British troops , including those which had marched with General ...
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... body of the Mahdî was removed from its ' tomb , and burnt , and the ashes were thrown into the Nile ; the head is said to be buried at Wâdi Halfa . The tomb was destroyed because , if left untouched , it would always have formed a ...
... body of the Mahdî was removed from its ' tomb , and burnt , and the ashes were thrown into the Nile ; the head is said to be buried at Wâdi Halfa . The tomb was destroyed because , if left untouched , it would always have formed a ...
Page 128
... body of men who have carried out his plans . In the first place the Sûdân has been conquered , and the Egyptian flag flies side by side with that of Great Britain at Khartum ; the condition of the army has been improved , and the ...
... body of men who have carried out his plans . In the first place the Sûdân has been conquered , and the Egyptian flag flies side by side with that of Great Britain at Khartum ; the condition of the army has been improved , and the ...
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Common terms and phrases
Abû Abydos Alexandria Amenophis Amenophis III ancient Egyptian Arabs Aswân Atbara Barrage Blue Nile body British building built Cairo called canal capital Cataract chamber chapel Christians church columns Coptic Copts corvée Dêr Dervishes desert east excavations famous feet Gebel Barkal gods Government granite Greek Ḥalfa Hathor hieroglyphic Horus Hyksos inscribed inscriptions Isis Karnak Khalifa Khartûm king Lake land large number Luxor Mariette Memphis Meroë metres miles from Cairo mosque Muḥammad Muḥammadan mummy Museum natives Nekht Nile nome Nubia Oasis Osiris papyrus Pâshâ period Philæ pillars priests probably Ptaḥ Ptolemy pylon pyramid railway Rameses Rameses II reign river Roman royal ruins sarcophagus Sawâkin scenes Seti shrine side statue stele stone Sûdân Suez suten temple Thebes thee Thothmes thou tomb town Upper Egypt Usertsen Wâdî walls west bank White Nile worship XIIth XVIIIth dynasty
Popular passages
Page 412 - And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour. And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
Page 370 - PRAISE be to God, the Lord of all creatures, the most merciful, the king of the day of judgment. Thee do we worship, and of thee do we beg assistance. Direct us in the right way, in the way of those to whom thou hast been gracious ; not of those against whom thou art incensed, nor of those who go astray...
Page 117 - His Britannic Majesty's Government declare that they have no intention of altering the political status of Egypt. The Government of the French Republic, for their part, declare that they will not obstruct the action of Great Britain in that country by asking that a limit of time be fixed for the British occupation or in any other manner...
Page 339 - Sirat. which they say is laid over the midst of hell, and described to be finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword...
Page 379 - If these writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved ; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed.
Page 13 - And forty days were fulfilled for him ; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed : and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.
Page 411 - And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.
Page 13 - God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Page 13 - For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.