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 13
... hand just stop shaking , I pray , and firmly hold the glow- worm to pen all what thou could for defending about the duties of the poor whom I believe are always downhearted and were to be frequently seen shedding their hot tears from ...
... hand just stop shaking , I pray , and firmly hold the glow- worm to pen all what thou could for defending about the duties of the poor whom I believe are always downhearted and were to be frequently seen shedding their hot tears from ...
Page 17
... hands and kneels and cach the walls . At the same time his mother teach him some trifles of language . Then the child will play at the door of his house and sometimes in the lanes with the boys who agree with him in age . At the age of ...
... hands and kneels and cach the walls . At the same time his mother teach him some trifles of language . Then the child will play at the door of his house and sometimes in the lanes with the boys who agree with him in age . At the age of ...
Page 22
... hand and not to fear any fierce animal even in day , and night specially for my wish . My wish will be the best I see for I want to be one of the inhabitants of the desert . At night I watch the purple sky , the bright moon , and the ...
... hand and not to fear any fierce animal even in day , and night specially for my wish . My wish will be the best I see for I want to be one of the inhabitants of the desert . At night I watch the purple sky , the bright moon , and the ...
Page 35
... hand of a chief , and twist it until it is of no further use . One wonders what kind of chief goes about carrying a rifle for Berberines to snatch . The Berberines apparently make good use of their club . Every Berberine in Cairo knows ...
... hand of a chief , and twist it until it is of no further use . One wonders what kind of chief goes about carrying a rifle for Berberines to snatch . The Berberines apparently make good use of their club . Every Berberine in Cairo knows ...
Page 37
... hand- kerchiefs are popular , and white coats . As a rule , your own servant will only steal small things of which you have a great number . But if you have a visitor he is fair game ; if the suffragi does not want your visitor's things ...
... hand- kerchiefs are popular , and white coats . As a rule , your own servant will only steal small things of which you have a great number . But if you have a visitor he is fair game ; if the suffragi does not want your visitor's things ...
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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