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 146
... tourists . The proper place to go for them is some shop like that kept by the Assuan Turk , at the end of the Tentmakers ' Bazar , which is farthest away from the Bab - es - Zuweyla . At Assuan there are many Turks , descendants of a ...
... tourists . The proper place to go for them is some shop like that kept by the Assuan Turk , at the end of the Tentmakers ' Bazar , which is farthest away from the Bab - es - Zuweyla . At Assuan there are many Turks , descendants of a ...
Page 147
... three humble shops kept by genuine traders , as well as some clever dealers , who prey on the unsuspecting tourist , and one antiquity dealer of world - wide fame who used to be The Most Interesting Things to Buy in Egypt 147.
... three humble shops kept by genuine traders , as well as some clever dealers , who prey on the unsuspecting tourist , and one antiquity dealer of world - wide fame who used to be The Most Interesting Things to Buy in Egypt 147.
Page 149
... tourist . You will never get anything from them of a fair quality or at a fair price . The most fascinating of all bargaining in Egypt is when you are voyaging on Cook's steamers through Nubia . The guileless Nubian wishes to sell you ...
... tourist . You will never get anything from them of a fair quality or at a fair price . The most fascinating of all bargaining in Egypt is when you are voyaging on Cook's steamers through Nubia . The guileless Nubian wishes to sell you ...
Page 202
... tourists who come here to be my guests . I wish English tourists to see my beautiful city and province , and they never come . you are here you are my guests . " While In the interval , what would we take ? " Brandy - and - soda ...
... tourists who come here to be my guests . I wish English tourists to see my beautiful city and province , and they never come . you are here you are my guests . " While In the interval , what would we take ? " Brandy - and - soda ...
Page 209
... We thought we had left Damietta , but the very rich young man with a squint was at the railway station , with a bundle of his own photographs . R CHAPTER XXII Rosetta OSETTA , undiscovered by the tourist 14 Damietta 209.
... We thought we had left Damietta , but the very rich young man with a squint was at the railway station , with a bundle of his own photographs . R CHAPTER XXII Rosetta OSETTA , undiscovered by the tourist 14 Damietta 209.
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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