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 107
... passed , he was ultimately shown into an inner chamber , where he waited another two hours , interviewing more servants . After many protests , the chief eunuch came to him , and said that he had come to receive the lesson and would ...
... passed , he was ultimately shown into an inner chamber , where he waited another two hours , interviewing more servants . After many protests , the chief eunuch came to him , and said that he had come to receive the lesson and would ...
Page 112
... passed by with a dignified old sheikh on his arm . The young man explained that the voice was produced mechanically . The sheikh pooh - pooh'd the matter altogether , and said that he knew all about it . But Cromwell Rhodes saw the old ...
... passed by with a dignified old sheikh on his arm . The young man explained that the voice was produced mechanically . The sheikh pooh - pooh'd the matter altogether , and said that he knew all about it . But Cromwell Rhodes saw the old ...
Page 131
... passed their medical were locked up in the prison till they could be sent under a police escort to the railway station , after being allowed to go out and say good - bye to their friends , it is true , under the eyes of the watchful ...
... passed their medical were locked up in the prison till they could be sent under a police escort to the railway station , after being allowed to go out and say good - bye to their friends , it is true , under the eyes of the watchful ...
Page 132
... passed - it may be passed ere these words are printed to make the second five years ( of service in the police ) optional , recruits being secured by the excellence of the pay . Those who do not shirk their military service will then ...
... passed - it may be passed ere these words are printed to make the second five years ( of service in the police ) optional , recruits being secured by the excellence of the pay . Those who do not shirk their military service will then ...
Page 156
... passed a splendid country - house still kept up like that of Prince Toosoon , the Khedive's specu- lative cousin . It had a beautiful garden in front of it , rather in the style of the Villa Lante , with copies of the famous Molossian ...
... passed a splendid country - house still kept up like that of Prince Toosoon , the Khedive's specu- lative cousin . It had a beautiful garden in front of it , rather in the style of the Villa Lante , with copies of the famous Molossian ...
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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