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 8
... rich in small ancient buildings as El- Katai . Between it and El - Kahira lie the ancient mosques and dervish tekkes of the Hilmiya and the Gamamise , leading to the palace of Sheikh Sadat , the type of the great Arab mansion , where ...
... rich in small ancient buildings as El- Katai . Between it and El - Kahira lie the ancient mosques and dervish tekkes of the Hilmiya and the Gamamise , leading to the palace of Sheikh Sadat , the type of the great Arab mansion , where ...
Page 9
... rich with all the architectural graces of the Arabs - its Mak'ad or open hall , has three great arches rising to the roof , a recessed doorway , almost as lofty , at the head of the steps which lead up from the court , and a balcony ...
... rich with all the architectural graces of the Arabs - its Mak'ad or open hall , has three great arches rising to the roof , a recessed doorway , almost as lofty , at the head of the steps which lead up from the court , and a balcony ...
Page 10
... rich- ness and a Gothic gateway , a captive from Acre ; the exquisite minarets present a diapering of hoary stone , like the handi- work of the lacemaker or the chaser of precious metals . And , within , there is every antique grace ...
... rich- ness and a Gothic gateway , a captive from Acre ; the exquisite minarets present a diapering of hoary stone , like the handi- work of the lacemaker or the chaser of precious metals . And , within , there is every antique grace ...
Page 11
... rich carpets and soft divans , which betoken that its mediæval splendour does not form a museum , but the home in which a Cairo notable of to - day leads his luxurious life . PART I ANECDOTES ILLUSTRATING THE EGYPTIAN CHARACTER CHAPTER ...
... rich carpets and soft divans , which betoken that its mediæval splendour does not form a museum , but the home in which a Cairo notable of to - day leads his luxurious life . PART I ANECDOTES ILLUSTRATING THE EGYPTIAN CHARACTER CHAPTER ...
Page 17
... rich he will send his son to the schools to learn the lessons . After taking the certificates , the boy will be a man and will be employed in a service in the government . After that his father will marry him a beautiful girl and the ...
... rich he will send his son to the schools to learn the lessons . After taking the certificates , the boy will be a man and will be employed in a service in the government . After that his father will marry him a beautiful girl and the ...
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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