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Page 107
After waiting for two hours in the selamik , interviewing several servants who
passed , he was ultimately shown into an inner chamber , where he waited
another two hours , interviewing more servants . After many protests , the chief
eunuch ...
After waiting for two hours in the selamik , interviewing several servants who
passed , he was ultimately shown into an inner chamber , where he waited
another two hours , interviewing more servants . After many protests , the chief
eunuch ...
Page 112
Presently a young man 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 ...
Presently a young man 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 ...
Page 131
It was no wonder that the Mamur was excited ; he would have had half the
population of Luxor locked up if he had had accommodation for them , and all the
young men who passed their medical were locked up in the prison till they could
be ...
It was no wonder that the Mamur was excited ; he would have had half the
population of Luxor locked up if he had had accommodation for them , and all the
young men who passed their medical were locked up in the prison till they could
be ...
Page 132
An excellent Bill is about to be 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
...
An excellent Bill is about to be 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
...
Page 156
Occasionally we passed a splendid country - house still kept up like that of Prince
Toosoon , the Khedive's speculative cousin . It had a beautiful garden in front of it
, rather in the style of the Villa Lante , with copies of the famous Molossian ...
Occasionally we passed a splendid country - house still kept up like that of Prince
Toosoon , the Khedive's speculative 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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Bibliographic information
| Title | Queer Things about Egypt |
| Author | Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Hurst & Blackett, Limited, 1911 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 16 Mar 2012 |
| Length | 428 pages |
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