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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... Arab Towns and Villages - Girgeh . Pages 251-263 CHAPTER XIII . THE ANCIENT THIS . An excited Antiquary - Egyptian Chronology - Arabat - el - Madfooneh-- The Temples - The Sacred Windhover - Edfoo - The Table of Abydos - Casabianca - A ...
... Arab Towns and Villages - Girgeh . Pages 251-263 CHAPTER XIII . THE ANCIENT THIS . An excited Antiquary - Egyptian Chronology - Arabat - el - Madfooneh-- The Temples - The Sacred Windhover - Edfoo - The Table of Abydos - Casabianca - A ...
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... Arab lounging in a sunny corner , or the crimson burnouse , the turban , the yellow slippers of a people who , whatever they may have done in the eighth century , certainly never hurry themselves in the nineteenth . The seeker for ...
... Arab lounging in a sunny corner , or the crimson burnouse , the turban , the yellow slippers of a people who , whatever they may have done in the eighth century , certainly never hurry themselves in the nineteenth . The seeker for ...
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... Arabic , and are of the religion of the Arabian prophet . It would not , as we shall have many occasions to remark ... Arab . The Roman fortress , erected to overawe Memphis , and still known as Babylon , is tolerably CH . II . ] 69 ...
... Arabic , and are of the religion of the Arabian prophet . It would not , as we shall have many occasions to remark ... Arab . The Roman fortress , erected to overawe Memphis , and still known as Babylon , is tolerably CH . II . ] 69 ...
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... Arab town , Fostat , now called Old Cairo . As Egypt was one of the first conquests of Mahomet's disciples , one of the earliest . seats of the great Caliphs , and long the centre of Arab civilisation , it has more features of purely Arab ...
... Arab town , Fostat , now called Old Cairo . As Egypt was one of the first conquests of Mahomet's disciples , one of the earliest . seats of the great Caliphs , and long the centre of Arab civilisation , it has more features of purely Arab ...
Side 73
... Arab peasant on the Nile has been in any way the better . Some years ago an apology for the Khedive and his family was published in London , and to their end- less shame be it spoken , most of the London papers reviewed it favourably ...
... Arab peasant on the Nile has been in any way the better . Some years ago an apology for the Khedive and his family was published in London , and to their end- less shame be it spoken , most of the London papers reviewed it favourably ...
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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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