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 52
... side of the first in a similar position , and so on till some two or three hundred are fastened in a sort of raft or rather lifeboat , as the mass is curved upward at each end . Then the little vessel is abandoned to the mercy of the ...
... side of the first in a similar position , and so on till some two or three hundred are fastened in a sort of raft or rather lifeboat , as the mass is curved upward at each end . Then the little vessel is abandoned to the mercy of the ...
Page 54
... side by side . Ibrahim , the seven- year - old , played at being all the other servants in turn : he had a sort of fancy dress and a prodigious white turban . The one thing which kept him good was that he was not allowed to go out with ...
... side by side . Ibrahim , the seven- year - old , played at being all the other servants in turn : he had a sort of fancy dress and a prodigious white turban . The one thing which kept him good was that he was not allowed to go out with ...
Page 75
... ( he did not mention the greengroceries - that would have been an in- fringement of the liberty of the subject ) at the little shop which the bully started on the opposite side of the Doing Business with Egyptians 75.
... ( he did not mention the greengroceries - that would have been an in- fringement of the liberty of the subject ) at the little shop which the bully started on the opposite side of the Doing Business with Egyptians 75.
Page 76
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. which the bully started on the opposite side of the Marylebone Road . There is another side to the shield ; the gratitude of the Egyptian is sometimes almost as embarrassing as his dis- honesty . When ...
Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. which the bully started on the opposite side of the Marylebone Road . There is another side to the shield ; the gratitude of the Egyptian is sometimes almost as embarrassing as his dis- honesty . When ...
Page 84
... side , and stared over at them . Old Khadijah , the Pasha's aunt , kept jumping up and looking through the meshrebiya at the band . Not content with that , she began prodding them through the meshrebiya with her hat - pins . Agenoria ...
... side , and stared over at them . Old Khadijah , the Pasha's aunt , kept jumping up and looking through the meshrebiya at the band . Not content with that , she began prodding them through the meshrebiya with her hat - pins . Agenoria ...
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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