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 35
... stand against them , and that every decent - looking girl in the country would want to marry one of them . It is a common thing , they say , for a Berberine to snatch the rifle out of the hand of a chief , and twist it until it is of no ...
... stand against them , and that every decent - looking girl in the country would want to marry one of them . It is a common thing , they say , for a Berberine to snatch the rifle out of the hand of a chief , and twist it until it is of no ...
Page 43
... stand upon this kind of ceremony ; they find them very use- ful when once they have learned where there is likely to be a block . It is prudent to board the tram on the far side of the sticky point , or you may have a quarter of an ...
... stand upon this kind of ceremony ; they find them very use- ful when once they have learned where there is likely to be a block . It is prudent to board the tram on the far side of the sticky point , or you may have a quarter of an ...
Page 44
... standing still all the time , while you are shopping or paying a call ; and you most decidedly need to bargain if you are driving outside the town , because there is no fixed tariff for that . Generally , however , if you employ the ...
... standing still all the time , while you are shopping or paying a call ; and you most decidedly need to bargain if you are driving outside the town , because there is no fixed tariff for that . Generally , however , if you employ the ...
Page 56
... standing near , " You very thin , you like one bit o ' wood . " This stationmaster was very proud of living in a two- storied house . He was always referring to his uppy - stairs window . A coachman wrote a long petition to Agenoria ...
... standing near , " You very thin , you like one bit o ' wood . " This stationmaster was very proud of living in a two- storied house . He was always referring to his uppy - stairs window . A coachman wrote a long petition to Agenoria ...
Page 64
... stand those women . " This was at the great age of fourteen . R. replied with the well- known Egyptian formula , " You had better stand outside the gate in the future . " Agenoria saw him about a year afterwards , a meek , thin thing ...
... stand those women . " This was at the great age of fourteen . R. replied with the well- known Egyptian formula , " You had better stand outside the gate in the future . " Agenoria saw him about a year afterwards , a meek , thin thing ...
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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