Egyptian DaysHoughton Mifflin, 1912 - 329 pages |
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Page 40
... once was grim and threatening . What I would emphasize is that , from the Citadel , Cairo really satisfies the eye as an Oriental spot better in fact than it is likely to do when you come to inspect it in detail below . Take a long look ...
... once was grim and threatening . What I would emphasize is that , from the Citadel , Cairo really satisfies the eye as an Oriental spot better in fact than it is likely to do when you come to inspect it in detail below . Take a long look ...
Page 41
... Once , I suppose , the Christian dogs had to unshoe themselves as well , but it has been discovered that Occidental curiosity is fully equal to paying a piastre for yellow overshoes that flap , and come untied , and get themselves mixed ...
... Once , I suppose , the Christian dogs had to unshoe themselves as well , but it has been discovered that Occidental curiosity is fully equal to paying a piastre for yellow overshoes that flap , and come untied , and get themselves mixed ...
Page 50
... once a week . On his " mastaba " - the little bench before every shop - door - sits a venerable and be - turbaned patriarch , pulling industriously at his narghileh . A boy hurries by with a tray of coffee for the customers of some near ...
... once a week . On his " mastaba " - the little bench before every shop - door - sits a venerable and be - turbaned patriarch , pulling industriously at his narghileh . A boy hurries by with a tray of coffee for the customers of some near ...
Page 51
... once as prevailingly handsome and , as a rule , rather a happy lot . Most of them are undeni- ably poor and destined always to be so . For them the basis of daily life is not so much the piastre as the millième - a coin of which the ...
... once as prevailingly handsome and , as a rule , rather a happy lot . Most of them are undeni- ably poor and destined always to be so . For them the basis of daily life is not so much the piastre as the millième - a coin of which the ...
Page 62
... once . One other thing worthy of being sought out while one is in this portion of the city is the " Beit Gamâl ed - Din , " or " House of Gamâl ed - Din . " It is only too easily overlooked , lying as it does in a very obscure side ...
... once . One other thing worthy of being sought out while one is in this portion of the city is the " Beit Gamâl ed - Din , " or " House of Gamâl ed - Din . " It is only too easily overlooked , lying as it does in a very obscure side ...
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Abydos Amenhotep Amenhotep III Ammon Ammon-Ra ancient appears Arabs Assiut Assuan backsheesh bank bazaars Beni Hassan body building Cairo camel carved cemetery chapel Cheops Citadel cliffs colossi columns Copts court dead decoration delightful Dendera desert donkey doubtless dragoman Dynasty Edfû Egypt Egyptian erected Esneh eternal face feet feluccas Ghizeh gods Greek Hassan Hatasu Hathor Horus huge hypostyle hall impressive Isis Karnak Khephrên king KOM OMBO land later lofty Luxor magnificent massive mastaba mastaba tomb Memphis midst miles modern Mohammed monarchs monument mortuary mosque Mouski mummy native Nile once Osiris passed Pharaoh Philæ Professor Ptolemaic pylon pyramids Rameses Rameses II Ramesseum Raschid ride river rock ruin sacred Sakkâra sands seems seen Seti shrine side sort sowaheen Sphinx spot steamer stone street Taiyah tarbush temple Thebes thing Thutmosis Thutmosis III tion to-day towers valley visitor walls worship