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 119
... shillings a day gave you nothing that a mess - sergeant could not have given you . As they are so anxious for people to see the Sudan , and invest in it , they ought to start a sort of club for both sexes like the Albemarle , with ...
... shillings a day gave you nothing that a mess - sergeant could not have given you . As they are so anxious for people to see the Sudan , and invest in it , they ought to start a sort of club for both sexes like the Albemarle , with ...
Page 124
... typewriter agent who wished to charge me twenty - five shillings for putting in a new main - spring , I told the proprietor that he must have it put right . He had witnessed the battle and felt shy 124 Queer Things About Egypt.
... typewriter agent who wished to charge me twenty - five shillings for putting in a new main - spring , I told the proprietor that he must have it put right . He had witnessed the battle and felt shy 124 Queer Things About Egypt.
Page 144
... shilling or so . You may get one of the bed - spreads , sound in its embroidery but tattered in its centre , for three to five shillings . A lady clever at remounting this kind of thing would get the chance of her lifetime in Cairo ...
... shilling or so . You may get one of the bed - spreads , sound in its embroidery but tattered in its centre , for three to five shillings . A lady clever at remounting this kind of thing would get the chance of her lifetime in Cairo ...
Page 147
... shillings to me as a joy for ever on the mantelpiece of my Moorish room ? Would that cunningly wrought charm fascinate me to the extent of five shillings , whenever I saw it hanging from the slender gold chain around my wife's neck ...
... shillings to me as a joy for ever on the mantelpiece of my Moorish room ? Would that cunningly wrought charm fascinate me to the extent of five shillings , whenever I saw it hanging from the slender gold chain around my wife's neck ...
Page 148
... shillings ; if an excavator wants to buy one for any reason he does not pay more than two shillings . If a dealer asks you five shillings or upwards for an ordinary drachma of Alexander which is not in very fine condition , you know ...
... shillings ; if an excavator wants to buy one for any reason he does not pay more than two shillings . If a dealer asks you five shillings or upwards for an ordinary drachma of Alexander which is not in very fine condition , you know ...
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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