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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... Luxor . 69 EGYPTIAN WOMAN RIDING She is holding her shawl over her face with her teeth to conceal it as she passes the man on her left . On the road from Karnak to Luxor . AN ARAB HORSEMAN IN THE FAYUM The village in the background is ...
... Luxor . 69 EGYPTIAN WOMAN RIDING She is holding her shawl over her face with her teeth to conceal it as she passes the man on her left . On the road from Karnak to Luxor . AN ARAB HORSEMAN IN THE FAYUM The village in the background is ...
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... Luxor on the Day of the Conscription . • FACING PAGE 132 DONKEY - BOYS AT THE GATES OF KARNAK 133 On the left is Joseph , on the right is one of the splendid troopers of the Egyptian Mounted Police on a beautiful white Arab . Behind is ...
... Luxor on the Day of the Conscription . • FACING PAGE 132 DONKEY - BOYS AT THE GATES OF KARNAK 133 On the left is Joseph , on the right is one of the splendid troopers of the Egyptian Mounted Police on a beautiful white Arab . Behind is ...
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... Luxor , with the hills of Thebes in the background . THE TEMPLE OF PTAH AT KARNAK , WHERE THE MOON SHINES ON THE IMAGE OF THE GODDESS SEKKET . This is the image which the fellahin think is an ogre who devours children . A NILE VILLAGE ...
... Luxor , with the hills of Thebes in the background . THE TEMPLE OF PTAH AT KARNAK , WHERE THE MOON SHINES ON THE IMAGE OF THE GODDESS SEKKET . This is the image which the fellahin think is an ogre who devours children . A NILE VILLAGE ...
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... Luxor, with the hills of Thebes in the background. THE TEMPLE OF PTAH AT KARNAK, WHERE THE MOON S1-IINES ON THE IMAGE OF THE GODDESS SEKKET . . . . . 310 This is the image which the fellahin think is an ogre who devours children ...
... Luxor, with the hills of Thebes in the background. THE TEMPLE OF PTAH AT KARNAK, WHERE THE MOON S1-IINES ON THE IMAGE OF THE GODDESS SEKKET . . . . . 310 This is the image which the fellahin think is an ogre who devours children ...
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Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. THE OCCUPATION OF EGYPT - SLEEPING . Scene taken near the Serapeum at Sakkara , the ancient Memphis . [ p . 26 On the road from Karnak to Luxor . In the.
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. THE OCCUPATION OF EGYPT - SLEEPING . Scene taken near the Serapeum at Sakkara , the ancient Memphis . [ p . 26 On the road from Karnak to Luxor . In the.
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