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 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 ...
Page 70
... clothes , tied them in a bundle , and swam across with them balanced on his head , put them on again without drying , and went on . But as it was hopeless to find his way in the dark , and there was an inviting heap of dry dhurra stalks ...
... clothes , tied them in a bundle , and swam across with them balanced on his head , put them on again without drying , and went on . But as it was hopeless to find his way in the dark , and there was an inviting heap of dry dhurra stalks ...
Page 75
... clothes too large for him , in the evening . Something went wrong in our flat on a Saturday night , and as I knew this greengrocer had been the foreman while the flats were building , I told the care- taker to go and fetch him to see if ...
... clothes too large for him , in the evening . Something went wrong in our flat on a Saturday night , and as I knew this greengrocer had been the foreman while the flats were building , I told the care- taker to go and fetch him to see if ...
Page 82
... clothes for the picnic . She was a Turkish lady , and enormously fat . Agenoria was dressed up in a grand brocade mantle , with a little kind of ladies ' turban , made of flowers and a flat band of muslin , which went all round , very ...
... clothes for the picnic . She was a Turkish lady , and enormously fat . Agenoria was dressed up in a grand brocade mantle , with a little kind of ladies ' turban , made of flowers and a flat band of muslin , which went all round , very ...
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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