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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... such a title would have clearly described its contents . I have used as it was convenient the substance and sometimes the actual words of various articles contributed during the past four years to the Saturday Review viii PREFACE .
... such a title would have clearly described its contents . I have used as it was convenient the substance and sometimes the actual words of various articles contributed during the past four years to the Saturday Review viii PREFACE .
Side 24
... sometimes puzzled by his fellow - voyagers ' anxiety about pratique . He does not fully understand their dread of quarantine , and has no idea of tlfe penalties incurred by a " foul bill . " Yet these terms belong to usages which may ...
... sometimes puzzled by his fellow - voyagers ' anxiety about pratique . He does not fully understand their dread of quarantine , and has no idea of tlfe penalties incurred by a " foul bill . " Yet these terms belong to usages which may ...
Side 71
... sometimes in the basket so carefully balanced upon the head . The baskets hardly differ from those depicted on the walls of the ancient tombs , and probably the baby , entirely naked and its eyes full of black flies , is much like what ...
... sometimes in the basket so carefully balanced upon the head . The baskets hardly differ from those depicted on the walls of the ancient tombs , and probably the baby , entirely naked and its eyes full of black flies , is much like what ...
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... Sometimes , as when he works the shadoof , there is a great beauty in the oft - repeated cadence ; but generally the ... sometimes show great skill in manipulating an instrument with two strings , and some Egyptian Paganini may blush ...
... Sometimes , as when he works the shadoof , there is a great beauty in the oft - repeated cadence ; but generally the ... sometimes show great skill in manipulating an instrument with two strings , and some Egyptian Paganini may blush ...
Side 90
... sometimes very perceptible , owing to the opera companies which go there every year ; and the military bands practise a kind of compromise which is most distressing to hear : but a concert of expert native performers in the Esbekeeyeh ...
... sometimes very perceptible , owing to the opera companies which go there every year ; and the military bands practise a kind of compromise which is most distressing to hear : but a concert of expert native performers in the Esbekeeyeh ...
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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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