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 28
... servant , " MOHAMMED MAGHRABI . " His letters of congratulation were sometimes varied by telegrams . TELEGRAM . " All of me family and children heartly wilh ( wish ) you altogether with respective madame and liece ( niece ) a merry ...
... servant , " MOHAMMED MAGHRABI . " His letters of congratulation were sometimes varied by telegrams . TELEGRAM . " All of me family and children heartly wilh ( wish ) you altogether with respective madame and liece ( niece ) a merry ...
Page 29
... servant . " A letter to Cromwell Rhodes began , " The Chief Mason Mohammed Ali does his duty with great splendor , notwith- standing his little knowledge of reading and writing . " Another began , " A thousand thanks for your tender ...
... servant . " A letter to Cromwell Rhodes began , " The Chief Mason Mohammed Ali does his duty with great splendor , notwith- standing his little knowledge of reading and writing . " Another began , " A thousand thanks for your tender ...
Page 31
... Servant UROPEANS who have to reside in Egypt objurgate the Egyptian servant . They discuss at afternoon tea - tables ... servants . When Ramidge woke the first morning , the cleaner of motor - cars was standing by his bed watching the ...
... Servant UROPEANS who have to reside in Egypt objurgate the Egyptian servant . They discuss at afternoon tea - tables ... servants . When Ramidge woke the first morning , the cleaner of motor - cars was standing by his bed watching the ...
Page 33
... servant , who simply ruled him . He would not allow him to use the stick which Ramidge had given him , because he did ... servants have likes and dislikes in other matters beside walking - canes , about which they are very particular . A ...
... servant , who simply ruled him . He would not allow him to use the stick which Ramidge had given him , because he did ... servants have likes and dislikes in other matters beside walking - canes , about which they are very particular . A ...
Page 34
... servants are excellent ; Egyptians are sometimes faithful ; Berberines will always sell any one when they are grown up , though they are quite decent when they are very young . If you have more than one Egyptian servant he always leaves ...
... servants are excellent ; Egyptians are sometimes faithful ; Berberines will always sell any one when they are grown up , though they are quite decent when they are very young . If you have more than one Egyptian servant he always leaves ...
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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