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 62
... hall covered with squashed food . The cook had brought the German girl vol - au - vent , when she wished for roast beef , so she threw it against the wall . The cook - man was heart - broken . The vol - au - vent was probably a love ...
... hall covered with squashed food . The cook had brought the German girl vol - au - vent , when she wished for roast beef , so she threw it against the wall . The cook - man was heart - broken . The vol - au - vent was probably a love ...
Page 63
... hall . Bond , the butler , was having a meal , and , by stretching backwards , he could have helped himself to the bread he wanted off the sideboard . But he prefered to get up , and walk across the room , to ring the bell for a native ...
... hall . Bond , the butler , was having a meal , and , by stretching backwards , he could have helped himself to the bread he wanted off the sideboard . But he prefered to get up , and walk across the room , to ring the bell for a native ...
Page 82
... hall of the harem ; no one else had arrived . Suddenly while they were talking , the Princess bobbed down behind an ottoman , which ought not to have been there , in a properly constituted native house ; a man had appeared in the ...
... hall of the harem ; no one else had arrived . Suddenly while they were talking , the Princess bobbed down behind an ottoman , which ought not to have been there , in a properly constituted native house ; a man had appeared in the ...
Page 85
... hall and seized the Princess's yashmak and brocade mantle . They were an extraordinary blend with the thick hob - nailed boots which had made the ladies think a man was coming into the room , and the round bullet - head , like a man's ...
... hall and seized the Princess's yashmak and brocade mantle . They were an extraordinary blend with the thick hob - nailed boots which had made the ladies think a man was coming into the room , and the round bullet - head , like a man's ...
Page 114
... hall - porter and an omnibus conductor who spake English . The latter was simple ; the American Mission schools turn out English- speaking boys by hundreds , and the Egyptian is a born ' bus conductor . But it was not so easy to find a hall ...
... hall - porter and an omnibus conductor who spake English . The latter was simple ; the American Mission schools turn out English- speaking boys by hundreds , and the Egyptian is a born ' bus conductor . But it was not so easy to find a hall ...
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