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 33
... boots . It is best to have only one servant . He does everything : he caters for you and makes money out of that ; he cooks if necessary ; he valets you and he keeps the 3 Humours of the Suffragi , the Egyptian Servant 33.
... boots . It is best to have only one servant . He does everything : he caters for you and makes money out of that ; he cooks if necessary ; he valets you and he keeps the 3 Humours of the Suffragi , the Egyptian Servant 33.
Page 34
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. if necessary ; he valets you and he keeps the house tidy . Sudanese servants are excellent ; Egyptians are sometimes faithful ; Berberines will always sell any one when they are grown up , though they are ...
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. if necessary ; he valets you and he keeps the house tidy . Sudanese servants are excellent ; Egyptians are sometimes faithful ; Berberines will always sell any one when they are grown up , though they are ...
Page 43
... keeping books and doing maps . It is not possible to economise in Egypt by going without , because the essentials are among the costly items , except a few things like tea - you can get good tea for a shilling a pound . The young man ...
... keeping books and doing maps . It is not possible to economise in Egypt by going without , because the essentials are among the costly items , except a few things like tea - you can get good tea for a shilling a pound . The young man ...
Page 48
... keeping Arabs at their distance , because the Arab is always on the lookout for taking liberties , and has a vile way of talking about it afterwards . From what I have written above it will be seen that those who mean to winter in Cairo ...
... keeping Arabs at their distance , because the Arab is always on the lookout for taking liberties , and has a vile way of talking about it afterwards . From what I have written above it will be seen that those who mean to winter in Cairo ...
Page 51
... keep stores is to put them in boxes on tables whose feet rest in pans of petroleum , or whose legs are wrapped with rags soaked in petroleum . 1 Mosquitoes one takes for granted , though strangers grow " The voice of the mosquitoe is ...
... keep stores is to put them in boxes on tables whose feet rest in pans of petroleum , or whose legs are wrapped with rags soaked in petroleum . 1 Mosquitoes one takes for granted , though strangers grow " The voice of the mosquitoe is ...
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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