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 20
... clothes , tiol his dressings , etc. When the child is two years old she begin to prevent him from sucking her milk , and to give him a light food according to his stomach . She still engaging in his breeding till he is seven years old ...
... clothes , tiol his dressings , etc. When the child is two years old she begin to prevent him from sucking her milk , and to give him a light food according to his stomach . She still engaging in his breeding till he is seven years old ...
Page 33
... clothes were not damaged . That might have hurt him . As it was , he adored Berkeley , and would have licked the blacking off his boots if he had not thought it more adulatory to put all Perkins's blacking on Berkeley's boots . It is ...
... clothes were not damaged . That might have hurt him . As it was , he adored Berkeley , and would have licked the blacking off his boots if he had not thought it more adulatory to put all Perkins's blacking on Berkeley's boots . It is ...
Page 37
... clothes . The Egyptian suffragi is original in one way he prefers to wear his shirt outside his trousers . If you have bright socks they always go . He does not care about ties - for one thing he does not wear them ; but hand- kerchiefs ...
... clothes . The Egyptian suffragi is original in one way he prefers to wear his shirt outside his trousers . If you have bright socks they always go . He does not care about ties - for one thing he does not wear them ; but hand- kerchiefs ...
Page 54
... clothes , Agenoria found him installed on the box beside the coachman , with his arms folded like an English footman - impossibly grand . Later on in the drive he relaxed a little , so as to take a large handkerchief , the first he had ...
... clothes , Agenoria found him installed on the box beside the coachman , with his arms folded like an English footman - impossibly grand . Later on in the drive he relaxed a little , so as to take a large handkerchief , the first he had ...
Page 68
... clothes , while they howled on the bank . Then the father laid the clothes down and took the children , who were filthy - black instead of olive , except their legs and their heads - and washed the very parts of them that were clean ...
... clothes , while they howled on the bank . Then the father laid the clothes down and took the children , who were filthy - black instead of olive , except their legs and their heads - and washed the very parts of them that were clean ...
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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