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 160
... columns , carved out of virgin rock , with branches sup- porting the roof . It looked like the larder ; there were bones on the ledges , and amphora for wine - jars ; but it was more likely the banqueting - hall , which , I suppose ...
... columns , carved out of virgin rock , with branches sup- porting the roof . It looked like the larder ; there were bones on the ledges , and amphora for wine - jars ; but it was more likely the banqueting - hall , which , I suppose ...
Page 161
... columns , the effect of that staircase , with the electric lights shining like lilies through its conduits of clear running water , was magical . We stepped from that chamber into a corridor of tombs on the Saracenic plan . Clear water ...
... columns , the effect of that staircase , with the electric lights shining like lilies through its conduits of clear running water , was magical . We stepped from that chamber into a corridor of tombs on the Saracenic plan . Clear water ...
Page 163
... columns , came to light . At the end of this huge building , according to the old Arab manuscript , lay the tomb of the saint , the marble grave of the patron of the Lybian desert and of Alexandria . And , indeed , one day in January ...
... columns , came to light . At the end of this huge building , according to the old Arab manuscript , lay the tomb of the saint , the marble grave of the patron of the Lybian desert and of Alexandria . And , indeed , one day in January ...
Page 165
... columns - are near Kait Bey's fort . Here , too , on the point between the two harbours , is the khedivial palace of Ras - el - Tin , where the Prince of Egypt holds levees for Alexandrians . It is a plain barrack , with a gingerbread ...
... columns - are near Kait Bey's fort . Here , too , on the point between the two harbours , is the khedivial palace of Ras - el - Tin , where the Prince of Egypt holds levees for Alexandrians . It is a plain barrack , with a gingerbread ...
Page 196
... columns , Damietta houses are built of wood . At a glance one can see that woodwork is the speciality of Damietta . Instead of ordinary meshrebiya , some of the houses had massive lattices of carved hard - wood like the screens of the ...
... columns , Damietta houses are built of wood . At a glance one can see that woodwork is the speciality of Damietta . Instead of ordinary meshrebiya , some of the houses had massive lattices of carved hard - wood like the screens of 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