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 38
... . He does not use the brass water - jug like a grown - up coffee - pot , with which he has to pour water over the hands of his betters , if he is employed by a native , though he prefers running water 38 Queer Things About Egypt.
... . He does not use the brass water - jug like a grown - up coffee - pot , with which he has to pour water over the hands of his betters , if he is employed by a native , though he prefers running water 38 Queer Things About Egypt.
Page 39
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. employed by a native , though he prefers running water if he can get it . He loves washing his hands under a running tap , and sucks the tap too , when he is thirsty . The suffragi class are much cleaner ...
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. employed by a native , though he prefers running water if he can get it . He loves washing his hands under a running tap , and sucks the tap too , when he is thirsty . The suffragi class are much cleaner ...
Page 44
... running over anybody or anything . They call out " Ouah riglak ! " - mind your legs - and that is enough . As the Egyptian policeman said : " Your legs are on your own head if you fail to get out of the way . " But the police are not so ...
... running over anybody or anything . They call out " Ouah riglak ! " - mind your legs - and that is enough . As the Egyptian policeman said : " Your legs are on your own head if you fail to get out of the way . " But the police are not so ...
Page 57
... running herself breathless to keep up with him . Her eggs were so large that they thought she was really in love with the flamingo . The oldest resident cannot always escape the attentions of the Egyptian guide . One day , when they ...
... running herself breathless to keep up with him . Her eggs were so large that they thought she was really in love with the flamingo . The oldest resident cannot always escape the attentions of the Egyptian guide . One day , when they ...
Page 68
... running down a bank ; he stuck in the mud and was in imminent danger of being drowned . R. and a gang of men flew to pull him out . Stop ! " cried the policeman , running up breathless , " I must take a procés verbal before anything ...
... running down a bank ; he stuck in the mud and was in imminent danger of being drowned . R. and a gang of men flew to pull him out . Stop ! " cried the policeman , running up breathless , " I must take a procés verbal before anything ...
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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