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 35
... carrying a rifle for Berberines to snatch . The Berberines apparently make good use of their club . Every Berberine in Cairo knows every other one , and he helps to support that other if he is out of work . At irregular intervals the ...
... carrying a rifle for Berberines to snatch . The Berberines apparently make good use of their club . Every Berberine in Cairo knows every other one , and he helps to support that other if he is out of work . At irregular intervals the ...
Page 55
... carry back as much as you have taken , just as you brought it , a basketful at a time . " 19 This might have been magnificent , but it was not the way to carry war into the camp of an Egyptian . He probably took the coal back , not to ...
... carry back as much as you have taken , just as you brought it , a basketful at a time . " 19 This might have been magnificent , but it was not the way to carry war into the camp of an Egyptian . He probably took the coal back , not to ...
Page 99
... carrying his sword ) , to show her the uniform he had been wearing at a levee . " My niece cannot come down ; she is not very well , " said Agenoria . The Consul made a rush for the staircase . " Where are you going ? " asked the ...
... carrying his sword ) , to show her the uniform he had been wearing at a levee . " My niece cannot come down ; she is not very well , " said Agenoria . The Consul made a rush for the staircase . " Where are you going ? " asked the ...
Page 105
... carried about with him and had been studying for years . He had no exact data ; there were in fact no exact data , for Egypt had not been surveyed . The place he chose for his feeding canal could not have been fed by any barrage that ...
... carried about with him and had been studying for years . He had no exact data ; there were in fact no exact data , for Egypt had not been surveyed . The place he chose for his feeding canal could not have been fed by any barrage that ...
Page 108
... carried away the buffers at the end of the line and ploughed its way into the sand , and very nearly into the Nile . The big dam of Assuan was quite eclipsed on that occasion . This same functionary thought he would like to do his work ...
... carried away the buffers at the end of the line and ploughed its way into the sand , and very nearly into the Nile . The big dam of Assuan was quite eclipsed on that occasion . This same functionary thought he would like to do his work ...
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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