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 157
... lake scenery , and a great collection of dust - heaps , which looked as if they had been evolved from a sulphur mine , but really contain ancient Alexandria , whenever the funds and energy are forth- coming to excavate it . This will ...
... lake scenery , and a great collection of dust - heaps , which looked as if they had been evolved from a sulphur mine , but really contain ancient Alexandria , whenever the funds and energy are forth- coming to excavate it . This will ...
Page 187
... lake at the Crystal Palace , which im- pressed me so much in my childhood , that I did not care for any real animals except the elephant and the rhinoceros and the hippopotamus . The Virgilian plough , which is of wood , with a steel ...
... lake at the Crystal Palace , which im- pressed me so much in my childhood , that I did not care for any real animals except the elephant and the rhinoceros and the hippopotamus . The Virgilian plough , which is of wood , with a steel ...
Page 218
... lake with its quaint Oriental setting . The lunch we had brought from the hotel was not for such surroundings . We gave all those savoury viands to the Arab boatmen , who had never known such a banquet . They gave us their bread in ...
... lake with its quaint Oriental setting . The lunch we had brought from the hotel was not for such surroundings . We gave all those savoury viands to the Arab boatmen , who had never known such a banquet . They gave us their bread in ...
Page 221
... lake of Ramleh , like the sparkle of champagne in a thirsty land , on one side , and a shady palm grove on the other . Before you come to Abûkir there is desert , but the deserts of the Mediterranean littoral are not like the deserts of ...
... lake of Ramleh , like the sparkle of champagne in a thirsty land , on one side , and a shady palm grove on the other . Before you come to Abûkir there is desert , but the deserts of the Mediterranean littoral are not like the deserts of ...
Page 233
... lake Kurun , can speak a little English . In the absence of that functionary we might have starved but for my knowledge of Italian . English people must not yield to their fears at the aspect of this hotel ; though the restaurant , the ...
... lake Kurun , can speak a little English . In the absence of that functionary we might have starved but for my knowledge of Italian . English people must not yield to their fears at the aspect of this hotel ; though the restaurant , 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