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Queer things about Egypt [Electronic Version]
(Rice University, 1911)
the sun was said to shine to the very bottom at the noon of
a certain day. Yet has no yellow fever, no malaria, not one of the
pestilences of miasma to throw a shadow on the sport and
gaiety...
thousand years. We need take nothing from hearsay; for in their marvellous system of hieroglyphics the Pharaohs and their subjects wrote on every temple and tomb the date and circumstances...
thousand years. We need take nothing from hearsay; for in their marvellous system of hieroglyphics the Pharaohs and their subjects wrote on every temple and tomb the date and circumstances...
Oriental Cairo : the city of the "Arabian nights" [Electronic Version]
(Rice University, 1911)
-Hakim, another of the primitive mosques, rise like the pylons of in the midst of mediaeval
. They have the solid
simplicity of the temples of ancient Egypt; and religion
has left them...
the sky threatens to vanish. The Gamaliya has ancient overhanging timber porches which would grace a Japanese temple. The Sukkariya and the streets which continue it are as fantastic...
the sky threatens to vanish. The Gamaliya has ancient overhanging timber porches which would grace a Japanese temple. The Sukkariya and the streets which continue it are as fantastic...