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 27
... sent you this as I am not able to come , but this is from my father's tongue , he was going to town , also I have heard that no one can get inside the house , but anyhow I shall ask God to pass it very soon . " Yours respectfully ...
... sent you this as I am not able to come , but this is from my father's tongue , he was going to town , also I have heard that no one can get inside the house , but anyhow I shall ask God to pass it very soon . " Yours respectfully ...
Page 28
... sent me two envelopes to look at , addressed simply " My dear Lady Rhodes in the Cairo ( Egypt ) , " and " Mr. Road in Egyptian railway . " Mohammed Maghrabi received the appointment for which he thirsted , and his letters thereafter ...
... sent me two envelopes to look at , addressed simply " My dear Lady Rhodes in the Cairo ( Egypt ) , " and " Mr. Road in Egyptian railway . " Mohammed Maghrabi received the appointment for which he thirsted , and his letters thereafter ...
Page 32
... sent him to Alexandria . Three days later he turned up again with a basket of dates . Ramidge found him on the car when he went down to the garage in the morning . The basket of dates was a peace - offering . For the three months after ...
... sent him to Alexandria . Three days later he turned up again with a basket of dates . Ramidge found him on the car when he went down to the garage in the morning . The basket of dates was a peace - offering . For the three months after ...
Page 39
... sent to make the arrangements , and a sum down is agreed upon and paid . After that she has her board and lodging , like a servant , and receives a sum for dresses and so on . But this is not usual in Egypt , though the same kind of ...
... sent to make the arrangements , and a sum down is agreed upon and paid . After that she has her board and lodging , like a servant , and receives a sum for dresses and so on . But this is not usual in Egypt , though the same kind of ...
Page 54
... sent . The seven - year - old was saying , in the finest Egyptian declamatory style : " You may beat me , you may kill me , you may keep me here , you may give me nothing to eat , but I will not stay with those people . " Agenoria not ...
... sent . The seven - year - old was saying , in the finest Egyptian declamatory style : " You may beat me , you may kill me , you may keep me here , you may give me nothing to eat , but I will not stay with those people . " Agenoria not ...
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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