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 159
... present to Cleopatra , were kept here . One can imagine the humiliation , the stupefaction succeeded by wild fury of the citizens of Pergamus , for Pergamus had been the rival of Alexandria in its manuscripts of the classics . So great ...
... present to Cleopatra , were kept here . One can imagine the humiliation , the stupefaction succeeded by wild fury of the citizens of Pergamus , for Pergamus had been the rival of Alexandria in its manuscripts of the classics . So great ...
Page 160
... present it is surrounded by a garden , rather pleasing , though its vegetation is almost entirely mesenbryan- themum , vulgarly called pig's - face . There are many levels in the garden , and many remains of catacombs , bottle cisterns ...
... present it is surrounded by a garden , rather pleasing , though its vegetation is almost entirely mesenbryan- themum , vulgarly called pig's - face . There are many levels in the garden , and many remains of catacombs , bottle cisterns ...
Page 175
... he , being astonished at the magnificence of the sight , expressed his surprise ; and she , smiling , said she made him a present of everything he saw , and invited him to sup with Some Reflections on the Forgotten Cleopatra 175.
... he , being astonished at the magnificence of the sight , expressed his surprise ; and she , smiling , said she made him a present of everything he saw , and invited him to sup with Some Reflections on the Forgotten Cleopatra 175.
Page 176
... present campaign Antony was sure to be defeated . If the power of Egypt was shattered in fighting for Antony , only suicide would save her from being put in chains , and carried to Rome to grace the triumph of Octavian . But if , at the ...
... present campaign Antony was sure to be defeated . If the power of Egypt was shattered in fighting for Antony , only suicide would save her from being put in chains , and carried to Rome to grace the triumph of Octavian . But if , at the ...
Page 180
... presents a very vivid picture derived from Plutarch , and less known classical writers , of her extravagances and splendour . His chapters on the Inimitables and the Die- togethers may be particularly commended in this context . There ...
... presents a very vivid picture derived from Plutarch , and less known classical writers , of her extravagances and splendour . His chapters on the Inimitables and the Die- togethers may be particularly commended in this context . There ...
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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