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 83
... river , and the band struck up . It was behind meshrebiya screens ; but the bandsmen and the ladies could see each other perfectly well . They sailed down the river for about an hour , and then the ladies went down to lunch in a very ...
... river , and the band struck up . It was behind meshrebiya screens ; but the bandsmen and the ladies could see each other perfectly well . They sailed down the river for about an hour , and then the ladies went down to lunch in a very ...
Page 95
... river , He said , ' I daren't go through Sheikh Ali's land . ' " When Sheikh Ali heard this he conceived a great respect for the new Inspector of Irrigation . Lavercombe's Coptic clerk said that a silent man never learns a language ...
... river , He said , ' I daren't go through Sheikh Ali's land . ' " When Sheikh Ali heard this he conceived a great respect for the new Inspector of Irrigation . Lavercombe's Coptic clerk said that a silent man never learns a language ...
Page 105
... that could be built by human labour , on account of its height above the river ; but it was in vain that ' Egyptian Gazette . Cromwell Rhodes took the levels to prove the impossibility -levels The Humours of the Country Egyptian 105.
... that could be built by human labour , on account of its height above the river ; but it was in vain that ' Egyptian Gazette . Cromwell Rhodes took the levels to prove the impossibility -levels The Humours of the Country Egyptian 105.
Page 149
... river - bank near the Winter Palace in a chapter addressed to the economical buyer were it not that they keep the pot boiling by the sale , at extravagant prices , of small antiquities and novelties to the gaping tourist . You will ...
... river - bank near the Winter Palace in a chapter addressed to the economical buyer were it not that they keep the pot boiling by the sale , at extravagant prices , of small antiquities and novelties to the gaping tourist . You will ...
Page 175
... river Cydnus , twelve miles below Tarsus , the capital of Cilicia , where Antony lay . This is how Plutarch , as quoted by Mr. Sergeant , describes her progress up the river : " Cleopatra , as if in mockery , sailed up the river in a ...
... river Cydnus , twelve miles below Tarsus , the capital of Cilicia , where Antony lay . This is how Plutarch , as quoted by Mr. Sergeant , describes her progress up the river : " Cleopatra , as if in mockery , sailed up the river in a ...
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