A Ride in Egypt, from Sioot to Luxor in 1879: With Notes on the Present State and Ancient History of Nile Valley, and Some Account of the Various Ways of Making the Voyage Out and HomeMacmillan and Company, 1879 - 399 sider |
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... to Suez - Backsheesh - The Railway Station -- The Dervish - A Testimony - Cairo - The Rule of the Turk - Palaces -Oppression - Difficulty of telling the Truth · · Pages 60-83 CHAPTER III . THE FELLAH . Heliopolis - The Delta.
... to Suez - Backsheesh - The Railway Station -- The Dervish - A Testimony - Cairo - The Rule of the Turk - Palaces -Oppression - Difficulty of telling the Truth · · Pages 60-83 CHAPTER III . THE FELLAH . Heliopolis - The Delta.
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... Cairo - Ordinary Schools in Cairo- In Country Villages - Blind Guides Coptic Schools — Towfik's Schools for Girls . Pages 182-194 CHAPTER IX . THE JOURNEY TO SIOOT . The Steamer - Bedreshayn - A Difficulty - An English Beauty - An ...
... Cairo - Ordinary Schools in Cairo- In Country Villages - Blind Guides Coptic Schools — Towfik's Schools for Girls . Pages 182-194 CHAPTER IX . THE JOURNEY TO SIOOT . The Steamer - Bedreshayn - A Difficulty - An English Beauty - An ...
Side xvii
... CAIRO . OBELISK IN CAIRO . FELLAH WOMEN PAGE Frontispiece . ix I 24 24 59 59 60 83 84 ཌ 91 PAGE CAVE ON THE MOKATTEM : THE " ROAD TO.
... CAIRO . OBELISK IN CAIRO . FELLAH WOMEN PAGE Frontispiece . ix I 24 24 59 59 60 83 84 ཌ 91 PAGE CAVE ON THE MOKATTEM : THE " ROAD TO.
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... Cairo were but scantily clad , and had eyes full of flies . I was also acquainted with the use of the word backsheesh , and had so far progressed in Oriental lan- guages that I knew it came , like khedive , from the Persian , and that ...
... Cairo were but scantily clad , and had eyes full of flies . I was also acquainted with the use of the word backsheesh , and had so far progressed in Oriental lan- guages that I knew it came , like khedive , from the Persian , and that ...
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... Cairo or Damascus . The debates of the local Parliament are carried on , however , either in Italian or English ; and the stranger present at a sitting has often the gratifi- cation of hearing Southern eloquence in his own Northern ...
... Cairo or Damascus . The debates of the local Parliament are carried on , however , either in Italian or English ; and the stranger present at a sitting has often the gratifi- cation of hearing Southern eloquence in his own Northern ...
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A Ride in Egypt, from Sioot to Luxor in 1879: With Notes on the Present ... William John Loftie Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1879 |
A Ride in Egypt, from Sioot to Luxor in 1879: With Notes on the Present ... William John Loftie Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1879 |
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Abood Amen ancient anteekas Antiquary appeared Arab backsheesh bank beautiful Beni Hassan blue boat Boolak boys building built Cairo called canal Chafra Collector colour Coptic Copts crowd Crown 8vo crude brick dark Dendera dervish donkey dynasty early Edition Egyptian English European evidently eyes face famine fcap feet Fellah Fostat Girgeh Government Greek green Gypt Hassan heaps Horus hour inscription interest inundation Karnac Keneh Khedive kings labour land least look Luxor Malta Maltese Manetho Mariette Maydoom monuments morning mosque Mosta mound mountains native Nefert never night Nile obelisk Osiris passed perhaps piastres Portrait pylon Pyramid ride river Roman round Sakkara scarabs Scot seemed seen Seneferoo shadoof sheykh Shoofoo side sight Sioot Soohag Sphinx stands steamer stone strange temple tent Thebes tion tomb town traveller twelfth dynasty Upper Egypt village voyage walls
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