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 29
... cook came many times , he asked me for bakshish . I not give to him as I sell at very low prices . " Yours , " C. CARAVASSILIS . " P.S. - A cheque from your goodselves for settlement of your bill will oblige me too much . " Yours truly ...
... cook came many times , he asked me for bakshish . I not give to him as I sell at very low prices . " Yours , " C. CARAVASSILIS . " P.S. - A cheque from your goodselves for settlement of your bill will oblige me too much . " Yours truly ...
Page 33
... cooked , or opened the teapot and shook its contents over him when he made the tea with lukewarm water . Suffragis ... cooks if necessary ; he valets you and he keeps the 3 Humours of the Suffragi , the Egyptian Servant 33.
... cooked , or opened the teapot and shook its contents over him when he made the tea with lukewarm water . Suffragis ... cooks if necessary ; he valets you and he keeps the 3 Humours of the Suffragi , the Egyptian Servant 33.
Page 35
... Cook's boats wear smart red sashes like belts ; in the Sudan these are never worn by servants at breakfast - time . Red slippers are worn with very pointed toes , much too long , as the Egyptian does not turn his slippers down at the ...
... Cook's boats wear smart red sashes like belts ; in the Sudan these are never worn by servants at breakfast - time . Red slippers are worn with very pointed toes , much too long , as the Egyptian does not turn his slippers down at the ...
Page 37
... cooks , but they steal your clothes . The Egyptian suffragi is original in one way he prefers to wear his shirt ... cook is content to rob you with commissions . Punctuality is one of the Egyptian suffragi's best points ; another is ...
... cooks , but they steal your clothes . The Egyptian suffragi is original in one way he prefers to wear his shirt ... cook is content to rob you with commissions . Punctuality is one of the Egyptian suffragi's best points ; another is ...
Page 39
... would be wanted ; and Ramidge never found it out till the other suffragi told him about it after the dismissal of this Berberine Box and Cox . The cooking is nearly always done on charcoal Humours of the Suffragi , the Egyptian Servant 39.
... would be wanted ; and Ramidge never found it out till the other suffragi told him about it after the dismissal of this Berberine Box and Cox . The cooking is nearly always done on charcoal Humours of the Suffragi , the Egyptian Servant 39.
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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