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 68
... face with her teeth to conceal it as she passes the ran on her left . sackful of stale bread and some pieces of cheese and. On the road from Karnak to Luxor . THE PROCESSION OF EGYPT . Fellahin riding in from Karnak. [ p . 69.
... face with her teeth to conceal it as she passes the ran on her left . sackful of stale bread and some pieces of cheese and. On the road from Karnak to Luxor . THE PROCESSION OF EGYPT . Fellahin riding in from Karnak. [ p . 69.
Page 71
... face , so the native doctor terrified the whole place by signing a certificate that the death was due to cholera , because the warning posted up in the station said that one of the symptoms of cholera was the patient turning black in the ...
... face , so the native doctor terrified the whole place by signing a certificate that the death was due to cholera , because the warning posted up in the station said that one of the symptoms of cholera was the patient turning black in the ...
Page 72
... face on matters , so he said , " I sent for you to order some of your famous engines ! " " How many ? " asked M. Schneider . And Ismail said , " Twenty - seven , " the first number that came into his head . How there came to be only ...
... face on matters , so he said , " I sent for you to order some of your famous engines ! " " How many ? " asked M. Schneider . And Ismail said , " Twenty - seven , " the first number that came into his head . How there came to be only ...
Page 83
... face . They all had such a feast : the ladies drank beer mixed with champagne , whisky , etc. , and began to get rowdy . Then they had coffee and very big cigarettes . Agenoria had disclosed her identity before this ; the disguise was ...
... face . They all had such a feast : the ladies drank beer mixed with champagne , whisky , etc. , and began to get rowdy . Then they had coffee and very big cigarettes . Agenoria had disclosed her identity before this ; the disguise was ...
Page 84
... face , and peeled off more yashmaks and jackets ; the others went down into the cabin and put on the shabby pink flannel dressing - gowns which they had made their slaves bring . They had shown their finery to their friends and now ...
... face , and peeled off more yashmaks and jackets ; the others went down into the cabin and put on the shabby pink flannel dressing - gowns which they had made their slaves bring . They had shown their finery to their friends and now ...
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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