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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... sand heaped upon its ruins by the winds of the desert any one who likes can fossick for the remains of Arab pottery ( all dating from before A.D. 1160 ) , of which such glowing fragments are exhibited in the South Kensington Museum ...
... sand heaped upon its ruins by the winds of the desert any one who likes can fossick for the remains of Arab pottery ( all dating from before A.D. 1160 ) , of which such glowing fragments are exhibited in the South Kensington Museum ...
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... sand and some rays rise with beautiful colours . Of course it is an exercise to me to live far away of the men and to need no help from others . Moreover it teaches me how to travel and how to ride camels in the desert and how to run by ...
... sand and some rays rise with beautiful colours . Of course it is an exercise to me to live far away of the men and to need no help from others . Moreover it teaches me how to travel and how to ride camels in the desert and how to run by ...
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... sand - fly , a kind of limpid midge , can get through the mesh of any mosquito net , and you can't see it . Much more painful and persevering is the Egyptian harvester ; it may not be quite the same species as our harvester , but it ...
... sand - fly , a kind of limpid midge , can get through the mesh of any mosquito net , and you can't see it . Much more painful and persevering is the Egyptian harvester ; it may not be quite the same species as our harvester , but it ...
Page 55
... sand outside the house , naked . " What are you doing , Ibrahim ? " they asked , and he answered : " I shall have to do this in my village , so I had better get used to it . " Was there ever a more histrionic appeal to the feelings ...
... sand outside the house , naked . " What are you doing , Ibrahim ? " they asked , and he answered : " I shall have to do this in my village , so I had better get used to it . " Was there ever a more histrionic appeal to the feelings ...
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... sand - fly as the worst of all their insect pests . They call it something which means " I eat and keep silence " —but I can't spell the Arabic words . " GE arrival . CHAPTER VI More about Agenoria's Servants 60 Queer Things About Egypt.
... sand - fly as the worst of all their insect pests . They call it something which means " I eat and keep silence " —but I can't spell the Arabic words . " GE arrival . CHAPTER VI More about Agenoria's Servants 60 Queer Things About Egypt.
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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