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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... Colours of Turbans - The Descendants of Mohammed - The Pilgrims ' Return - The Mahmal - The Doseh . Pages 109-124 CHAPTER V. THE BOOLAK MUSEUM . The Peculiarity of the Collection - M . Mariette's Researches - The most Ancient Art in the ...
... Colours of Turbans - The Descendants of Mohammed - The Pilgrims ' Return - The Mahmal - The Doseh . Pages 109-124 CHAPTER V. THE BOOLAK MUSEUM . The Peculiarity of the Collection - M . Mariette's Researches - The most Ancient Art in the ...
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... coloured shutters of the windows glow in the warm winter sunshine . High up on the steep side of the bare rock , at the angle which may be said to form the pass from the mainland to the town , stands the Moorish castle , one of the few ...
... coloured shutters of the windows glow in the warm winter sunshine . High up on the steep side of the bare rock , at the angle which may be said to form the pass from the mainland to the town , stands the Moorish castle , one of the few ...
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... colour than the blue sky on either side of it . The steamer waits at Catania till evening , and we had time for sight- nearer view of Etna seeing ; but the best sight is the which may be obtained from the public gardens , and there ...
... colour than the blue sky on either side of it . The steamer waits at Catania till evening , and we had time for sight- nearer view of Etna seeing ; but the best sight is the which may be obtained from the public gardens , and there ...
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... colour elsewhere I am sure unknown . Port Said I have often heard described as " a beastly hole , " and I think the description only too mild . The canal is a long ditch , nothing more , but the lakes are not so unpleasant , except for ...
... colour elsewhere I am sure unknown . Port Said I have often heard described as " a beastly hole , " and I think the description only too mild . The canal is a long ditch , nothing more , but the lakes are not so unpleasant , except for ...
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... colours , but otherwise very like them . It was borne by a tall mild - looking negro , who was also laden with a gourd , a brass pannikin , a pipe , and various other articles for personal use . While we wonder what or who he is , he ...
... colours , but otherwise very like them . It was borne by a tall mild - looking negro , who was also laden with a gourd , a brass pannikin , a pipe , and various other articles for personal use . While we wonder what or who he is , he ...
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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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