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 151
... shillings a day for pension . Five Egyptian shillings come to about seven francs . The crying need of Cairo is to have pensions as comfortable as those of Florence at five shillings a day . A slummy Egyptian pension , where you always ...
... shillings a day for pension . Five Egyptian shillings come to about seven francs . The crying need of Cairo is to have pensions as comfortable as those of Florence at five shillings a day . A slummy Egyptian pension , where you always ...
Page 195
... shilling Egyptian , and with him we went in search of a hotel . His ' gift " consisted of six words of English , five of Italian , four of French , three of German , and , as he said , though we had only his word for it , " Many , yes ...
... shilling Egyptian , and with him we went in search of a hotel . His ' gift " consisted of six words of English , five of Italian , four of French , three of German , and , as he said , though we had only his word for it , " Many , yes ...
Page 218
... shillings to two . Our lunch had been consigned , for safety , to the assistant station - master's safe , and , when we had fetched it from the station , we stepped gleefully on board our stout felookah , helped with Arab courtesy by ...
... shillings to two . Our lunch had been consigned , for safety , to the assistant station - master's safe , and , when we had fetched it from the station , we stepped gleefully on board our stout felookah , helped with Arab courtesy by ...
Page 253
... shillings and seven and a half shillings . " Sir , you buy coffee - service , " said one- " coffee - pot , milk - pot , sugar - pot , cups - all made of Nile mud . " This was evidently a supreme attraction . When I did not buy these he ...
... shillings and seven and a half shillings . " Sir , you buy coffee - service , " said one- " coffee - pot , milk - pot , sugar - pot , cups - all made of Nile mud . " This was evidently a supreme attraction . When I did not buy these he ...
Page 267
... shillings for putting a spring into a type - writer . Outside the shed was a mysterious - looking object which may make the fortune of the inventive manager , or give him the fame of a Blériot - a desert ship , something on the lines of ...
... shillings for putting a spring into a type - writer . Outside the shed was a mysterious - looking object which may make the fortune of the inventive manager , or give him the fame of a Blériot - a desert ship , something on the lines of ...
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