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 68
... knew that what- ever it was must have gone wrong , so he went to see what they were doing . A donkey had fallen in , and they were trying to pull him out by the hind - legs , with the result that his fore - legs stuck like an anchor ...
... knew that what- ever it was must have gone wrong , so he went to see what they were doing . A donkey had fallen in , and they were trying to pull him out by the hind - legs , with the result that his fore - legs stuck like an anchor ...
Page 71
... knew it , got up steam . Off it went , while R. and the other Englishman were having a frugal lunch off a water - melon . They sent a spare engine after it , which brought it back , whistling , as it got into the station , but not ...
... knew it , got up steam . Off it went , while R. and the other Englishman were having a frugal lunch off a water - melon . They sent a spare engine after it , which brought it back , whistling , as it got into the station , but not ...
Page 74
... clerk's pocket . As he knew that he had had twenty new two - piastre pieces in his box , and some of the money was still in the little roll in which you get it from Egyptian banks , R. identified it 74 Queer Things About Egypt.
... clerk's pocket . As he knew that he had had twenty new two - piastre pieces in his box , and some of the money was still in the little roll in which you get it from Egyptian banks , R. identified it 74 Queer Things About Egypt.
Page 75
... knew this greengrocer had been the foreman while the flats were building , I told the care- taker to go and fetch him to see if he knew how to put it right . " Bless you , sir , he doesn't understand anything about it , " said the ...
... knew this greengrocer had been the foreman while the flats were building , I told the care- taker to go and fetch him to see if he knew how to put it right . " Bless you , sir , he doesn't understand anything about it , " said the ...
Page 80
... knew him , said , " We had better wait here for half an hour . " She guessed exactly what had happened : he had thought that his supper might not be right , and had flown home to see . She kept the company playing about until the ...
... knew him , said , " We had better wait here for half an hour . " She guessed exactly what had happened : he had thought that his supper might not be right , and had flown home to see . She kept the company playing about until the ...
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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