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 xxi
... DOOR - KEY IN HER RIGHT HAND . · Unchanged from the time of Cleopatra . On the road to Heliopolis . PLOUGHING IN THE FAYUM This is called the Virgilian plough in Italy , and in Egypt has been in use since the times of the Pharaohs . It ...
... DOOR - KEY IN HER RIGHT HAND . · Unchanged from the time of Cleopatra . On the road to Heliopolis . PLOUGHING IN THE FAYUM This is called the Virgilian plough in Italy , and in Egypt has been in use since the times of the Pharaohs . It ...
Page 5
... door and are almost stunned by the effect . The Mo'allaka is large for a Coptic church , especially when you consider the character of its decorations , for it is lined all round with the most perfect Coptic screens . Kait Bey , the ...
... door and are almost stunned by the effect . The Mo'allaka is large for a Coptic church , especially when you consider the character of its decorations , for it is lined all round with the most perfect Coptic screens . Kait Bey , the ...
Page 17
... door of his house and sometimes in the lanes with the boys who agree with him in age . At the age of seven , his father will send him to a kuttab , in which he will stay about a year . Then if the father is poor he will send his son to ...
... door of his house and sometimes in the lanes with the boys who agree with him in age . At the age of seven , his father will send him to a kuttab , in which he will stay about a year . Then if the father is poor he will send his son to ...
Page 38
... door . Every house in Egypt has a man at the back of the door , and these men have a tiresome habit of making their beds right against the door , so that it won't open even when it is unlocked . This is all right in a private house with ...
... door . Every house in Egypt has a man at the back of the door , and these men have a tiresome habit of making their beds right against the door , so that it won't open even when it is unlocked . This is all right in a private house with ...
Page 52
... door in the floor of the egg , and take a dive at once into a watery home . ' " The male mosquito , it appears , bever ( sic ) goes into houses except by accident , and only drinks water . " Blood - sucking is an acquired taste with the ...
... door in the floor of the egg , and take a dive at once into a watery home . ' " The male mosquito , it appears , bever ( sic ) goes into houses except by accident , and only drinks water . " Blood - sucking is an acquired taste with 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