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Queer things about Egypt [Electronic Version]
(Rice University, 1911)
, and the
Citadel crowned by the soaring Mosque of Mehemet Ali,
rivalling the marvellous skyline of the Golden Horn.
Behind the mosque and the tombs are the Golden Hills of the
Mokattam range...
, a little to the left of this, and the Sharia-el-Magar, leading down from the shoulder of the Citadel hill. All of them abound in mediæval beauties. The Sharia Serougiya takes you...
, a little to the left of this, and the Sharia-el-Magar, leading down from the shoulder of the Citadel hill. All of them abound in mediæval beauties. The Sharia Serougiya takes you...
Oriental Cairo : the city of the "Arabian nights" [Electronic Version]
(Rice University, 1911)
by A. & C. Black, too late for me to mention it in the text of my
book. They could not have fitted my text more completely
if they had been executed for it. No one ever caught...
The land of the Pharaohs. Egypt and Sinai: illustrated by pen and pencil. [Electronic Version]
(Rice University, 1875)
, and , as a garden of herbs:
but the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills
and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven.”wateredst it with thy footThough the trains on Egyptian railways...
and Mokattam ranges of hills, which inclose the Nile Valley, come into view. Then, those who know where to look for them, may make out, through the quivering haze, at a distance of ten...
and Mokattam ranges of hills, which inclose the Nile Valley, come into view. Then, those who know where to look for them, may make out, through the quivering haze, at a distance of ten...
Veiled Mysteries of Egypt and the Religion of Islam [Electronic Version]
(Rice University, 1913)
are
pursuing a different line, taking to their work a genial and unbiased spirit,
which puts them in kindly touch with the people they want to help. As an
instance of a work of this sort, I may mention , by Duncan Black...
, with the minaret of the mosque always rising as the crowning point, looked very picturesque.Soon in the distance the village in which we were to stay appeared, standing prettily on its small round hill or mound...
, with the minaret of the mosque always rising as the crowning point, looked very picturesque.Soon in the distance the village in which we were to stay appeared, standing prettily on its small round hill or mound...
An account of the manners and customs of the modern egyptians. Written in Egypt during the years 1833—1835. [Electronic Version]
(Rice University, 1890)
blind: one of his eyes is almost entirely closed; and both are ornamented,
on particular occasions (at least on the two grand annual festivals), with
a border of the black pigment called “kohl,” which...
Modern sons of the Pharaohs [Electronic Version]
(Rice University, 1918)
along by the waterways, the men in their blue cotton robes, and the women
swathed in dusty black, a procession which, from the rising till the setting
of the sun, seems never ending.Because we are riding...
-pots on their heads. The women are all swathed in the black robe of Egypt, so unsuitable where every pathway is a track of dust; as we appear, their faces are covered until the men of our party have passed.It would...
-pots on their heads. The women are all swathed in the black robe of Egypt, so unsuitable where every pathway is a track of dust; as we appear, their faces are covered until the men of our party have passed.It would...