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 58
... morning , to say that the cook was taking things away , and that he would not let her pass . When the niece had slipped on a dressing - gown and reached the point of action , she saw the remains of the cook's umbrella , which had been ...
... morning , to say that the cook was taking things away , and that he would not let her pass . When the niece had slipped on a dressing - gown and reached the point of action , she saw the remains of the cook's umbrella , which had been ...
Page 70
... morning . Such is the grit of the Englishmen who have made Egypt ! The next day he got a telegram from the Japanese engineer , Ishugiro , who was going to share his quarters , asking him to send a hansom to the station to meet him ...
... morning . Such is the grit of the Englishmen who have made Egypt ! The next day he got a telegram from the Japanese engineer , Ishugiro , who was going to share his quarters , asking him to send a hansom to the station to meet him ...
Page 74
... morning and returned suddenly ; he found his clerk with the cash - box open before him , groping inside it . He did not hear R.'s footsteps , so they both had a very good look - R . at him and he at the box . And R. had time to go and ...
... morning and returned suddenly ; he found his clerk with the cash - box open before him , groping inside it . He did not hear R.'s footsteps , so they both had a very good look - R . at him and he at the box . And R. had time to go and ...
Page 80
... 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 donkey beside a very fat young ...
... 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 donkey beside a very fat young ...
Page 89
... morning about twelve . They were kept a terrible time waiting when they got to the Palace , and filthy slaves , in dirty cottons and sloppy slippers , stood about and stared at them . They thought , of course , that the Princess was ...
... morning about twelve . They were kept a terrible time waiting when they got to the Palace , and filthy slaves , in dirty cottons and sloppy slippers , stood about and stared at them . They thought , of course , that the Princess was ...
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