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 116
... sands and hills of the Libyan shore . The sun set directly behind this masterpiece of nature's scene - painting ; and in order that the visitors might enjoy it , and indulge in many afternoon teas , which were extras , the astute ...
... sands and hills of the Libyan shore . The sun set directly behind this masterpiece of nature's scene - painting ; and in order that the visitors might enjoy it , and indulge in many afternoon teas , which were extras , the astute ...
Page 139
... sand and the tem- perature about ninety in the shade . After this he left off trying to deceive me about distances- more or less ; he saw that I always tested his replies by the map , and could form a pretty good guess as to whether he ...
... sand and the tem- perature about ninety in the shade . After this he left off trying to deceive me about distances- more or less ; he saw that I always tested his replies by the map , and could form a pretty good guess as to whether he ...
Page 162
... sand - by Mr. Falls noticing the relief of a camel's head on a kom , with fragments of broken pottery . He ran back to Mr. Kaufmann , crying out , " This , Charley , ought to be the lost city ! " The discovery was made in the summer ...
... sand - by Mr. Falls noticing the relief of a camel's head on a kom , with fragments of broken pottery . He ran back to Mr. Kaufmann , crying out , " This , Charley , ought to be the lost city ! " The discovery was made in the summer ...
Page 166
... sand . The fortifications have not been kept up at all . To turn from Arabi Bey , who is living in Egypt now , an unconsidered nonentity , to Alexander the Great , you get a rude shock when you find that the place where the greatest of ...
... sand . The fortifications have not been kept up at all . To turn from Arabi Bey , who is living in Egypt now , an unconsidered nonentity , to Alexander the Great , you get a rude shock when you find that the place where the greatest of ...
Page 187
... sand of a donkey - path in the middle of camels and blacked - robed women with pitchers on their heads . Perhaps he was cycling from Cairo to Alexan- dria - it has been done , though no one has yet succeeded in motoring it in a roadless ...
... sand of a donkey - path in the middle of camels and blacked - robed women with pitchers on their heads . Perhaps he was cycling from Cairo to Alexan- dria - it has been done , though no one has yet succeeded in motoring it in a roadless ...
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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