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 75
... stand the business he is inspecting . But one has heard something rather like this in England . We had a greengrocer and coal - merchant who , curiously enough , did not increase his income by going out as a waiter , in a second - hand ...
... stand the business he is inspecting . But one has heard something rather like this in England . We had a greengrocer and coal - merchant who , curiously enough , did not increase his income by going out as a waiter , in a second - hand ...
Page 121
... stand opposite , and camels often used to stand there , and the law - court was just up the road , and the high road from Karnak entered Luxor at this point . You had only to sit on a chair on the verandah to take notes and photographs ...
... stand opposite , and camels often used to stand there , and the law - court was just up the road , and the high road from Karnak entered Luxor at this point . You had only to sit on a chair on the verandah to take notes and photographs ...
Page 122
... . 123 ] WOMEN MOURNING , This photo was taken at Luxor on the Day of the Conscription . The women are weeping because their sons have not been pronounced physically unfit to serve their country . by the bed and the washing - stand ; and.
... . 123 ] WOMEN MOURNING , This photo was taken at Luxor on the Day of the Conscription . The women are weeping because their sons have not been pronounced physically unfit to serve their country . by the bed and the washing - stand ; and.
Page 123
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. by the bed and the washing - stand ; and light was almost as scarce , for the windows were closely grated with meshrebiya work . The hygiene of that hotel was one of the dark spots of the earth . Our ...
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. by the bed and the washing - stand ; and light was almost as scarce , for the windows were closely grated with meshrebiya work . The hygiene of that hotel was one of the dark spots of the earth . Our ...
Page 126
... standing or sitting outside ; there is a grand person in a short bolero and wide breeches of fine - faced cloth , generally scarlet , with a gold - laced waistcoat to match , who sees people into their carriages ; there are two very ...
... standing or sitting outside ; there is a grand person in a short bolero and wide breeches of fine - faced cloth , generally scarlet , with a gold - laced waistcoat to match , who sees people into their carriages ; there are two very ...
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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