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 54
... hour straight on end . The next morning he went to the house- keeper for another handkerchief . " But I gave you one yesterday , " she said . " I know that , but Madame wouldn't like me to use the same scent again to - day . " The other ...
... hour straight on end . The next morning he went to the house- keeper for another handkerchief . " But I gave you one yesterday , " she said . " I know that , but Madame wouldn't like me to use the same scent again to - day . " The other ...
Page 65
... hours . The Mudir will welcome you with any amount of palaver , as his oldest friend . While he is still palavering , before you have time to get a word in about your business , somebody else will come in , and the same thing will ...
... hours . The Mudir will welcome you with any amount of palaver , as his oldest friend . While he is still palavering , before you have time to get a word in about your business , somebody else will come in , and the same thing will ...
Page 69
... hour he happened to look in the direction of the train , and found it still there . They said it was because he had not told them to go on , but the staff were watching the shooting with frantic interest ; so it may have been that ...
... hour he happened to look in the direction of the train , and found it still there . They said it was because he had not told them to go on , but the staff were watching the shooting with frantic interest ; so it may have been that ...
Page 77
... , which took about two hours . The case they were going to try was , " Is it legally right for a man to wound his wife by accident ? " CHAPTER VIII The Pasha ' HE Khedive Ismail had a Doing Business with Egyptians 77.
... , which took about two hours . The case they were going to try was , " Is it legally right for a man to wound his wife by accident ? " CHAPTER VIII The Pasha ' HE Khedive Ismail had a Doing Business with Egyptians 77.
Page 80
... hour drove over first thing next morning to beg Agenoria not to let her mother hear of it ; the girl who didn't come at all simply did not care . The late Lord Rowton , of Rowton Houses fame , was one of the starters ; he was riding his ...
... hour drove over first thing next morning to beg Agenoria not to let her mother hear of it ; the girl who didn't come at all simply did not care . The late Lord Rowton , of Rowton Houses fame , was one of the starters ; he was riding his ...
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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