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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... road spanned by the gate - though it is vulgarised by European haberdashery , you are never out of sight of one of its noble mosques and sebils . The street , in Arab fashion , changes its name twice or thrice before you reach the ...
... road spanned by the gate - though it is vulgarised by European haberdashery , you are never out of sight of one of its noble mosques and sebils . The street , in Arab fashion , changes its name twice or thrice before you reach the ...
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Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. THE OCCUPATION OF EGYPT - SLEEPING . Scene taken near the Serapeum at Sakkara , the ancient Memphis . [ p . 26 On the road from Karnak to Luxor . In the.
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. THE OCCUPATION OF EGYPT - SLEEPING . Scene taken near the Serapeum at Sakkara , the ancient Memphis . [ p . 26 On the road from Karnak to Luxor . In the.
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Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. On the road from Karnak to Luxor . In the background are camels carrying stones for building . work as post man or clean man , and ask. EGYPTIAN WOMAN WITH HER SHAWL OVER THE BURDEN ON HER HEAD TO SHIELD ...
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. On the road from Karnak to Luxor . In the background are camels carrying stones for building . work as post man or clean man , and ask. EGYPTIAN WOMAN WITH HER SHAWL OVER THE BURDEN ON HER HEAD TO SHIELD ...
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... porter concluded with Hoping you are sweetly sailing down life's road . " Mr. Maghrabi signed another letter " your fithfrilly Magh- rabi . " It is a marvel how some letters reach . Mrs. English as She is Wrote in Egypt 27.
... porter concluded with Hoping you are sweetly sailing down life's road . " Mr. Maghrabi signed another letter " your fithfrilly Magh- rabi . " It is a marvel how some letters reach . Mrs. English as She is Wrote in Egypt 27.
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... Road in Egyptian railway . " Mohammed Maghrabi received the appointment for which he thirsted , and his letters thereafter take on a more cheerful tone . " WASTA , UPPER EGYPT , " 22nd Sept. 1904 . " MRS . CR . ROADS , " My respective ...
... Road in Egyptian railway . " Mohammed Maghrabi received the appointment for which he thirsted , and his letters thereafter take on a more cheerful tone . " WASTA , UPPER EGYPT , " 22nd Sept. 1904 . " MRS . CR . ROADS , " My respective ...
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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