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 58
... turned round and began to eat its food . Some time after it was the vicar's turn ; he was dying of quinsy , when the old woman came to his door and said : " O vicar , if thou liveth thou liveth , and if thou dieth thou dieth " ; and he ...
... turned round and began to eat its food . Some time after it was the vicar's turn ; he was dying of quinsy , when the old woman came to his door and said : " O vicar , if thou liveth thou liveth , and if thou dieth thou dieth " ; and he ...
Page 71
... turning black in the face . Another Egyptian doctor was called in to give a certificate of death for a man who had been killed by going to sleep on the top of a kiln at Benha . He certified that the death was due to cold . When asked ...
... turning black in the face . Another Egyptian doctor was called in to give a certificate of death for a man who had been killed by going to sleep on the top of a kiln at Benha . He certified that the death was due to cold . When asked ...
Page 78
... turned to his tutor and said , " Please tell his Highness that I don't speak French . " He was never allowed to go to England again after that . He was very English even in Agenoria's day ; he affected Agenoria a great deal . " Oh , Mrs ...
... turned to his tutor and said , " Please tell his Highness that I don't speak French . " He was never allowed to go to England again after that . He was very English even in Agenoria's day ; he affected Agenoria a great deal . " Oh , Mrs ...
Page 80
... turned out that the commanding officers had passed word to the subalterns that they were not to drink with him in public bars . But to return to the picnic . Agenoria had to drive with him in his carriage ; they drove right out to ...
... turned out that the commanding officers had passed word to the subalterns that they were not to drink with him in public bars . But to return to the picnic . Agenoria had to drive with him in his carriage ; they drove right out to ...
Page 89
... turned to the ladies , on pain of some awful punish- ment . Luckily , Agenoria knew a little about engineering , having always taken a great interest in her husband's work , and knew the royal ladies from each other . None of the other ...
... turned to the ladies , on pain of some awful punish- ment . Luckily , Agenoria knew a little about engineering , having always taken a great interest in her husband's work , and knew the royal ladies from each other . None of the other ...
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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