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 115
... feet . She was , I suspect , a Christian of sorts , though she only spoke Arabic and wished to make us all share one large room . The best hotel at which we stayed , the Cataract at Assuan , had few humours , except those which arose ...
... feet . She was , I suspect , a Christian of sorts , though she only spoke Arabic and wished to make us all share one large room . The best hotel at which we stayed , the Cataract at Assuan , had few humours , except those which arose ...
Page 123
... feet high . This is an excellent place to send people to , whose great desire when they go to a foreign country is to find a place which has no buildings to distinguish it from the backwoods of Middlesex . The sight of even an antique ...
... feet high . This is an excellent place to send people to , whose great desire when they go to a foreign country is to find a place which has no buildings to distinguish it from the backwoods of Middlesex . The sight of even an antique ...
Page 141
... feet at this and the other point in the service , or kneeling while the incense - bearer walked down between them sprinkling ; of the Sheikh delivering an impassioned address in front of the massed banners of white glowing with texts ...
... feet at this and the other point in the service , or kneeling while the incense - bearer walked down between them sprinkling ; of the Sheikh delivering an impassioned address in front of the massed banners of white glowing with texts ...
Page 158
... feet long , and a little less in width and height . Its inside is rather like a church ; it has three tiers of ... feet long , five feet high , and four feet wide , cut in the sandstone . You go down into a bear - pit twenty - five feet ...
... feet long , and a little less in width and height . Its inside is rather like a church ; it has three tiers of ... feet long , five feet high , and four feet wide , cut in the sandstone . You go down into a bear - pit twenty - five feet ...
Page 159
... feet high , of which three - quarters are shaft . It is about thirty feet round at the bottom and fifteen feet and a half at the top , and as you approach it from the decent parts of the city , where foreigners are hotelled , it looks ...
... feet high , of which three - quarters are shaft . It is about thirty feet round at the bottom and fifteen feet and a half at the top , and as you approach it from the decent parts of the city , where foreigners are hotelled , it looks ...
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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