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Veiled Mysteries of Egypt and the Religion of Islam [Electronic Version]
(Rice University, 1913)
chivalry towards a guest appears equally, as I well know, in the
tent of the desert, and the mud hut of the remote oasis, where it can charm
away the limitations of poverty as surely as it can soften...
Modern sons of the Pharaohs [Electronic Version]
(Rice University, 1918)
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MODERN SONS OF THE PHARAOHS A STUDY OF THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE COPTS OF
EGYPTBY S. H. LEEDER AUTHOR OF "VEILED MYSTERIES OF EGYPT"
"THE DESERT GATEWAY" ETC. ILLUSTRATED WITH PHOTOGRAPHS BY THE AUTHOR...
—these landowners are rescuing immense tracts of pure desert and brine-logged earth, and making it to smile under the waving corn which, as by magic, springs up where once the sea reigned or the hot dry sand...
—these landowners are rescuing immense tracts of pure desert and brine-logged earth, and making it to smile under the waving corn which, as by magic, springs up where once the sea reigned or the hot dry sand...