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 13
... Morning News . " Have they pitied the Poor , “ Nay Nay . " Now gently , gently ! Thou our reverned Ministry of Public Instruction ! Again , slowly ! slowly ! Thou our good honourable Ministry . " Be patient and hurry not in publishing ...
... Morning News . " Have they pitied the Poor , “ Nay Nay . " Now gently , gently ! Thou our reverned Ministry of Public Instruction ! Again , slowly ! slowly ! Thou our good honourable Ministry . " Be patient and hurry not in publishing ...
Page 31
... morning , the cleaner of motor - cars was standing by his bed watching the Berberine doing his valeting . Everything that the Berberine did that morning the Egyptian had done before the Berberine was up the next morning . For a ...
... morning , the cleaner of motor - cars was standing by his bed watching the Berberine doing his valeting . Everything that the Berberine did that morning the Egyptian had done before the Berberine was up the next morning . For a ...
Page 32
... morning Mustapha brought the car to Ramidge's house , so that he should not have the trouble of walking to the garage . And Mustapha stayed . After about a month of very good work , Mustapha took the car out again one Saturday morning ...
... morning Mustapha brought the car to Ramidge's house , so that he should not have the trouble of walking to the garage . And Mustapha stayed . After about a month of very good work , Mustapha took the car out again one Saturday morning ...
Page 36
... morning when he was waiting for the tea he was in the habit of drinking before he got up . He had to wait so long that he went to look for 1 Evil spirit . 1 AT LUXOR . Women with their shawls over their head 36 Queer Things About Egypt.
... morning when he was waiting for the tea he was in the habit of drinking before he got up . He had to wait so long that he went to look for 1 Evil spirit . 1 AT LUXOR . Women with their shawls over their head 36 Queer Things About Egypt.
Page 38
... morning , he is always up a little after sunrise , and always asleep when you want him in the afternoon , or at any odd moment . To wipe his own person he uses the gay cotton cloths which Turks use for towels and foreigners take home ...
... morning , he is always up a little after sunrise , and always asleep when you want him in the afternoon , or at any odd moment . To wipe his own person he uses the gay cotton cloths which Turks use for towels and foreigners take home ...
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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