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 17
... give them all , good , bad , and indifferent , that the reader may see the workings of the Egyptian mind . He must remember that some of the writers of these guileless effusions were quite grown up- one , as I have said , was fifty ...
... give them all , good , bad , and indifferent , that the reader may see the workings of the Egyptian mind . He must remember that some of the writers of these guileless effusions were quite grown up- one , as I have said , was fifty ...
Page 18
... give him her milk till he knows how to walk and to eat and to drink . When the boy grows old his father sends him to the Kuttab , where he knows how to write and read well . After the Kuttab his father sends him to school and obtains ...
... give him her milk till he knows how to walk and to eat and to drink . When the boy grows old his father sends him to the Kuttab , where he knows how to write and read well . After the Kuttab his father sends him to school and obtains ...
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... give him a light food according to his stomach . She still engaging in his breeding till he is seven years old . His father then send him to the Kottab to learn the simple writing and reading . He sent him then to a primary School to ...
... give him a light food according to his stomach . She still engaging in his breeding till he is seven years old . His father then send him to the Kottab to learn the simple writing and reading . He sent him then to a primary School to ...
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... give him her milk till he was fourty days of old , the doctor vaccinated him . When he was one years of age , the ... give him milk and in order to grow to the 1st year of age . After that the nurse gives him little food till he English ...
... give him her milk till he was fourty days of old , the doctor vaccinated him . When he was one years of age , the ... give him milk and in order to grow to the 1st year of age . After that the nurse gives him little food till he English ...
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Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. After that the nurse gives him little food till he reaches the 4th year of his age , then they sent him to the kuttab , there he learns the alphabets and to write and read little ; he stays in the kuttabe ...
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. After that the nurse gives him little food till he reaches the 4th year of his age , then they sent him to the kuttab , there he learns the alphabets and to write and read little ; he stays in the kuttabe ...
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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