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 31
... chief servant was a minute Egyptian , a glorious example of Egyptian precocity ; for he was only twelve or fourteen at the end of his gay and chequered career as Ramidge's servant . Before he came to Ramidge he had been assistant in a ...
... chief servant was a minute Egyptian , a glorious example of Egyptian precocity ; for he was only twelve or fourteen at the end of his gay and chequered career as Ramidge's servant . Before he came to Ramidge he had been assistant in a ...
Page 35
... chief , and twist it until it is of no further use . One wonders what kind of chief goes about carrying a rifle for Berberines to snatch . The Berberines apparently make good use of their club . Every Berberine in Cairo knows every ...
... chief , and twist it until it is of no further use . One wonders what kind of chief goes about carrying a rifle for Berberines to snatch . The Berberines apparently make good use of their club . Every Berberine in Cairo knows every ...
Page 72
... chief came to Egypt he was surprised to find that they had twenty - six Schneider engines . He wanted to know why they had chosen this particular brand , and why they were entered on the list of plant as twenty - seven . He found that ...
... chief came to Egypt he was surprised to find that they had twenty - six Schneider engines . He wanted to know why they had chosen this particular brand , and why they were entered on the list of plant as twenty - seven . He found that ...
Page 87
... chief eunuch returned from the Mecca pilgrimage . It was rather a gruesome entertainment , for a sheep had been killed in front of the threshold , and all the guests were expected to walk through its blood . Before they went into the ...
... chief eunuch returned from the Mecca pilgrimage . It was rather a gruesome entertainment , for a sheep had been killed in front of the threshold , and all the guests were expected to walk through its blood . Before they went into the ...
Page 89
... chief engineers had to do it . There was no one to explain anything technically , because no men were allowed in except two who walked ahead and had to keep their backs turned to the ladies , on pain of some awful punish- ment . Luckily ...
... chief engineers had to do it . There was no one to explain anything technically , because no men were allowed in except two who walked ahead and had to keep their backs turned to the ladies , on pain of some awful punish- ment . Luckily ...
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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