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 69
... authority to stop expresses at any time , but that he could stop slow trains in the daytime . There was , however , no slow train during the day , so he could do nothing . Influence was brought to bear , and Doing Business with Egyptians ...
... authority to stop expresses at any time , but that he could stop slow trains in the daytime . There was , however , no slow train during the day , so he could do nothing . Influence was brought to bear , and Doing Business with Egyptians ...
Page 70
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. do nothing . Influence was brought to bear , and the President had to give the authorisation . But then the guard and the engine - driver would not stop the train , because , as the President had given ...
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. do nothing . Influence was brought to bear , and the President had to give the authorisation . But then the guard and the engine - driver would not stop the train , because , as the President had given ...
Page 71
... brought it back , whistling , as it got into the station , but not before it had killed a cow . The native's account of it was that the engine was an afrit and had got up steam and started itself , and that it had screamed as the other ...
... brought it back , whistling , as it got into the station , but not before it had killed a cow . The native's account of it was that the engine was an afrit and had got up steam and started itself , and that it had screamed as the other ...
Page 72
... brought a lawsuit to recover a further indemnity , and won it . There never was such a pagoda - tree as Ismail Pasha . Nowadays a Government official is considered lucky if he can get his pay without shamming illness or threatening a ...
... brought a lawsuit to recover a further indemnity , and won it . There never was such a pagoda - tree as Ismail Pasha . Nowadays a Government official is considered lucky if he can get his pay without shamming illness or threatening a ...
Page 73
... brought him a masseur who , in a very short time , completely cured him whether by the charms he repeated over him , or by faith healing . He would take no reward for his supernatural gifts , but in the end allowed R. to pay for the ...
... brought him a masseur who , in a very short time , completely cured him whether by the charms he repeated over him , or by faith healing . He would take no reward for his supernatural gifts , but in the end allowed R. to pay for the ...
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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