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.IRSTESTBURY-ONRYMOctoberPREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.“Un voyage en égypte, c'est une partie d'ânes et une promenade en bateau entremêlées de ruines.”MPÈRE. A has put Egypt in an epigram. “A donkey-ride and a...
, cataract, everything included except wine—was about £10 per day.With regard to temperature, we found it cool—even cold, sometimes—in December and January; mild in February; very warm in March and April...

, but the Mohammedan era, though commencing nearly 200 years before Egbert was crowned first King of England, continues to the present day, and the beautiful mosques, as their churches are called (many...
the southern half of Spain, and to-day the Faith of Islam, as their religion is called, is the third largest in the world.Equally surprising as their accession to power is the very beautiful art they created, first in Egypt...

.OPYRIGHTBYAMESOTTOF I, N, 1905IRSTMPRESSIONSOVEMBER To MY FATHER PREFACE M motives may bring the tourist to Egypt. But when he first sets...
foot on her shores, or rather even when his thoughts first turn thither, he feels that Egypt is something more than a mere health or pleasure resort. Egypt has a history longer and more...

at its Cataract Hotel. , that has never known a winter, has a Winter Palace—a hotel on the same palatial scale. At the one, the northerner, flying from winter, can have his golf, his...
on their walls. Everything has its hieroglyphic explanation painted on it.There are few more impressive moments in your life than when you enter for the first time a perfect temple of ancient Egypt...

; things at first sight like exhalations, visionary things, with nevertheless here and there, and most of all in the features of the vast mute face, subtleties of shadow which show that at least exists, rigid and immovable, fashioned...
commentary upon our own, where all seemed silent, undefined, gigantic and suffused with rose-colour.And first there is the pyramid of , whose immutable base we had to skirt on our way hither...

gives the first place in his inquiries to the land of the Law and the Prophets, the mountains and valleys which echoed the daily psalmody of the temple, the scenes of the Saviour's life and miracles and passion...
the Crusaders, St. Louis of France, and Saladin the chivalrous enemy of Richard Coeur de Lion, all lead our thoughts to Egypt. What wonder, then, that it was with a feeling of almost reverential awe, that I first gazed...

: Ground Floor, p. 86. and First Floor, p. 87; AT , p. 239. Many of these images can be found in some of the other editions of Baedeker's "Egypt : handbook for travellers" included in TIMEA...
, will find additional particulars in small type. A first visit to the Temple of Dendera, for example, may in this manner be accomplished in about an hour, which is approximately the time allowed...

to come with you, but Japan is too seductive. Go, my dear chap. Not your first visit, is it? Ah! you will find the proverb says truly: ‘He who has once tasted of the waters of the Nile will surely...
minutes later, a victoria with a couple of excellent little horses, took us swiftly along the streets of .First of all came the Arab quarter: its streets muddy and filthy, its shops open to all the winds of heaven...

of the “Service des Antiquités” in Egypt consists in an annual inspection of the monuments. From 1881 to 1886, the period of my first sojourn in Egypt, a steamboat, the , was put at my disposal. She was better known...
when it first arises, but if it is allowed to persist it is an exceedingly difficult matter to eradicate it. No better proof can be given than the persistence of the form Hatasou for the name...