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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... YOUNG IDEA 413 Taken at the village just outside Karnak . The idea of these boys is to make small piastres by stripping to run races or pose for the Kodaker . 16 Da Med Queer Things About Egypt M INTRODUCTION Cairo List of Illustrations ...
... YOUNG IDEA 413 Taken at the village just outside Karnak . The idea of these boys is to make small piastres by stripping to run races or pose for the Kodaker . 16 Da Med Queer Things About Egypt M INTRODUCTION Cairo List of Illustrations ...
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... young Egyptian . At least half of them put Turkey first , Switzerland came next , closely followed by Syria and the Desert . France and England had three each , Italy , the United States , and Japan one each . None of them desired to go ...
... young Egyptian . At least half of them put Turkey first , Switzerland came next , closely followed by Syria and the Desert . France and England had three each , Italy , the United States , and Japan one each . None of them desired to go ...
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... young till that in which he was a man . " I know a boy who was sent to school when he was six years old , this boy was very polite , very clever , also by this qualities his teachers loved him very much and so his parents . This boy was ...
... young till that in which he was a man . " I know a boy who was sent to school when he was six years old , this boy was very polite , very clever , also by this qualities his teachers loved him very much and so his parents . This boy was ...
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... one European worthy of admission to this Valhalla- " Young German seeks lodgings of lady very severe . Under ' Birch , ' Poste Restante , Cairo " CHAPTER II On the Humours of the Suffragi , the 30 Queer Things About Egypt.
... one European worthy of admission to this Valhalla- " Young German seeks lodgings of lady very severe . Under ' Birch , ' Poste Restante , Cairo " CHAPTER II On the Humours of the Suffragi , the 30 Queer Things About Egypt.
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... young . If you have more than one Egyptian servant he always leaves things to the other . There is one respect in which Cairo servants are not so bad as their rivals in Upper Egypt . They do not put hashish , which makes the smoker ...
... young . If you have more than one Egyptian servant he always leaves things to the other . There is one respect in which Cairo servants are not so bad as their rivals in Upper Egypt . They do not put hashish , which makes the smoker ...
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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