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 11
... palace of the Grand Cadi , and of the Caliphs of El - Kahira before him ? Turning our backs on this , we are soon in the Gamaliya , the stronghold of Cairo mediævalism , the street which de- lights the heart of the Arab . At its ...
... palace of the Grand Cadi , and of the Caliphs of El - Kahira before him ? Turning our backs on this , we are soon in the Gamaliya , the stronghold of Cairo mediævalism , the street which de- lights the heart of the Arab . At its ...
Page 59
... palace , beautifully redecorated , and talked so much about it that people were always wanting to go over it , which , of course , was not permitted , except by the introduction of mutual friends . To show what ants can do , I must tell ...
... palace , beautifully redecorated , and talked so much about it that people were always wanting to go over it , which , of course , was not permitted , except by the introduction of mutual friends . To show what ants can do , I must tell ...
Page 61
... Palace before she married Cromwell Rhodes , he used to come courting her , Directly he arrived the little nigger boy , whose duty 61 MORE ABOUT AGENORIA'S SERVAnts 550 DOING BUSINESS WITH EGYPTIANS THE PASHA THE NAUGHTY PRINCESS.
... Palace before she married Cromwell Rhodes , he used to come courting her , Directly he arrived the little nigger boy , whose duty 61 MORE ABOUT AGENORIA'S SERVAnts 550 DOING BUSINESS WITH EGYPTIANS THE PASHA THE NAUGHTY PRINCESS.
Page 64
... palace , she sent in her European servants to see that the native servants cleaned the floors properly . Ahmed made them understand that he did not mean to wash the floors . The maids flew back to Agenoria . She could not speak much ...
... palace , she sent in her European servants to see that the native servants cleaned the floors properly . Ahmed made them understand that he did not mean to wash the floors . The maids flew back to Agenoria . She could not speak much ...
Page 76
... palace , which she had bought from the Pasha , she generally found some- body loafing about the garden with a couple of gazelles or a couple of flamingoes , or some turkeys . They dumped them down till the garden was a regular Zoo and ...
... palace , which she had bought from the Pasha , she generally found some- body loafing about the garden with a couple of gazelles or a couple of flamingoes , or some turkeys . They dumped them down till the garden was a regular Zoo and ...
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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