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 26
... camels carrying stones for building . work as post man or clean man , and ask. EGYPTIAN WOMAN WITH HER SHAWL OVER THE BURDEN ON HER HEAD TO SHIELD HER FROM THE FIERCE SUN . Fellah in his ordinary costume , riding a donkey . [ p . 27.
... camels carrying stones for building . work as post man or clean man , and ask. EGYPTIAN WOMAN WITH HER SHAWL OVER THE BURDEN ON HER HEAD TO SHIELD HER FROM THE FIERCE SUN . Fellah in his ordinary costume , riding a donkey . [ p . 27.
Page 41
... stone by leaving yours uncleaned . The hotel people , he says , will not give him any stuff to clean them with . You either expostu- late with the manager , or , if you are idle , give him money to buy some . He avoids blame , and lays ...
... stone by leaving yours uncleaned . The hotel people , he says , will not give him any stuff to clean them with . You either expostu- late with the manager , or , if you are idle , give him money to buy some . He avoids blame , and lays ...
Page 47
... stone to the Blue Nile . Generally , too , they have their private suites when they are here . " As she was the only visitor I knew who took a house in Cairo , I ventured to ask her something about prices . " Rents are enormous , " she ...
... stone to the Blue Nile . Generally , too , they have their private suites when they are here . " As she was the only visitor I knew who took a house in Cairo , I ventured to ask her something about prices . " Rents are enormous , " she ...
Page 56
... stone opposite . Presently he pro- duced a beefsteak from the breast of his galabeah , looked about for a big stone , and pounded it on the curb in a place where goats passed by the thousand . She smiled when she thought how Sir John ...
... stone opposite . Presently he pro- duced a beefsteak from the breast of his galabeah , looked about for a big stone , and pounded it on the curb in a place where goats passed by the thousand . She smiled when she thought how Sir John ...
Page 66
... stones in the cotton bags , which is worse , for they break the machinery when the cotton is being ginned . Watering the cotton not only makes it weigh heavier , but liable to spontaneous combustion when it dries . That is why Egyptian ...
... stones in the cotton bags , which is worse , for they break the machinery when the cotton is being ginned . Watering the cotton not only makes it weigh heavier , but liable to spontaneous combustion when it dries . That is why Egyptian ...
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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