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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... round it , like that which used to ascend the fallen campanile of Venice . It was the well which made Saladin choose this site , for there is a higher rock behind , which even the poor artillery of Mehemet Ali could render untenable ...
... round it , like that which used to ascend the fallen campanile of Venice . It was the well which made Saladin choose this site , for there is a higher rock behind , which even the poor artillery of Mehemet Ali could render untenable ...
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... round its walls which leads into a gracious courtyard , with a fountain like an old Sicilian monastery and a pergola of vines . At its end are a noble flight of steps and a handsome porch opening into a delightful inner court , like the ...
... round its walls which leads into a gracious courtyard , with a fountain like an old Sicilian monastery and a pergola of vines . At its end are a noble flight of steps and a handsome porch opening into a delightful inner court , like the ...
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... round it , and the finest view of Cairo . And just outside it is the oldest Cairo mosque - that of Amr the victorious , who con- quered Egypt for the Caliphs , and named the city that he founded Al - Fustat , the City of the Tent . This ...
... round it , and the finest view of Cairo . And just outside it is the oldest Cairo mosque - that of Amr the victorious , who con- quered Egypt for the Caliphs , and named the city that he founded Al - Fustat , the City of the Tent . This ...
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... round it you come on a vision hardly less lovely than the Tombs of the Caliphs . For there , below you , capped by the fantastic minarets of the old El - Muayyad mosque , profiled against the blue Egyptian sky , is the Bab - es ...
... round it you come on a vision hardly less lovely than the Tombs of the Caliphs . For there , below you , capped by the fantastic minarets of the old El - Muayyad mosque , profiled against the blue Egyptian sky , is the Bab - es ...
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... round and round the Esbikiya Gardens . Ramidge offered him his choice of going to prison or taking a good thrashing ; he gratefully accepted the latter , and Ramidge caned him like a schoolboy till he was tired , and sent him to ...
... round and round the Esbikiya Gardens . Ramidge offered him his choice of going to prison or taking a good thrashing ; he gratefully accepted the latter , and Ramidge caned him like a schoolboy till he was tired , and sent him to ...
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