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 57
... garden with the hen running herself breathless to keep up with him . Her eggs were so large that they thought she was really in love with the flamingo . The oldest resident cannot always escape the attentions of the Egyptian guide . One ...
... garden with the hen running herself breathless to keep up with him . Her eggs were so large that they thought she was really in love with the flamingo . The oldest resident cannot always escape the attentions of the Egyptian guide . One ...
Page 62
... garden , " or " Your lady is in the summer - house " ; while there was an old gardener who followed her about every- where . One day , when she was sitting in the garden be- ginning to say good - bye to R— , the mosquitoes bit her badly ...
... garden , " or " Your lady is in the summer - house " ; while there was an old gardener who followed her about every- where . One day , when she was sitting in the garden be- ginning to say good - bye to R— , the mosquitoes bit her badly ...
Page 76
... garden with a couple of gazelles or a couple of flamingoes , or some turkeys . They dumped them down till the garden was a regular Zoo and would not hold any more live stock . Gazelles were frequent ; they are in the Zoo at Cairo now ...
... garden with a couple of gazelles or a couple of flamingoes , or some turkeys . They dumped them down till the garden was a regular Zoo and would not hold any more live stock . Gazelles were frequent ; they are in the Zoo at Cairo now ...
Page 79
... but some of the young couples were lost altogether . One couple sat on a garden wall waiting for another - they were a girl and a man ; they did not arrive until " frightfully " late , and the other couple did not arrive at The Pasha 79.
... but some of the young couples were lost altogether . One couple sat on a garden wall waiting for another - they were a girl and a man ; they did not arrive until " frightfully " late , and the other couple did not arrive at The Pasha 79.
Page 101
... garden which would not bear any fruit , so he told the head gardener to grub it out and put in a new one . The man was most unwilling to obey him . " I can get a charm for three piastres , " he said , " and then if I burn some incense ...
... garden which would not bear any fruit , so he told the head gardener to grub it out and put in a new one . The man was most unwilling to obey him . " I can get a charm for three piastres , " he said , " and then if I burn some incense ...
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