The Fayoum: Or, Artists in EgyptH. S. King & Company, 1873 - 298 páginas |
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... face page 40 A SAQUIÈH · 54 FAYOUM : THE VILLAGE OF TAMYÈH " " 85 ALMÉE 96 MEDINET - EL - FAYOUM 124 19 OUR ESCORT 194 GENERAL VIEW OF THE CONVENT OF SINAI . " " 213 ENTRANCE TO THE CONVENT OF SINAI . 214 MONKS OF THE CONVENT OF SINAI ...
... face page 40 A SAQUIÈH · 54 FAYOUM : THE VILLAGE OF TAMYÈH " " 85 ALMÉE 96 MEDINET - EL - FAYOUM 124 19 OUR ESCORT 194 GENERAL VIEW OF THE CONVENT OF SINAI . " " 213 ENTRANCE TO THE CONVENT OF SINAI . 214 MONKS OF THE CONVENT OF SINAI ...
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... have been carefully studied . And yet , nothing is more natural than the interminable Greek moustaches which cut their faces in two , like two huge buffalo horns , and which form the most appropriate ornament to those fine.
... have been carefully studied . And yet , nothing is more natural than the interminable Greek moustaches which cut their faces in two , like two huge buffalo horns , and which form the most appropriate ornament to those fine.
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... faces , bronzed by the sun . The moustache , which has nothing Arab in it , is a sign of Albanian origin among the Cairene soldiery . The Arnauts , that Greek militia brought into Egypt by Mehemet Ali in order to oppose the encroaching ...
... faces , bronzed by the sun . The moustache , which has nothing Arab in it , is a sign of Albanian origin among the Cairene soldiery . The Arnauts , that Greek militia brought into Egypt by Mehemet Ali in order to oppose the encroaching ...
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... face of the universe ; it must have considered itself lost , it , who had never seen a hump , except on the back of a com- missionaire . We were started off , men and beasts , in Indian file , first , because of the narrowness of the ...
... face of the universe ; it must have considered itself lost , it , who had never seen a hump , except on the back of a com- missionaire . We were started off , men and beasts , in Indian file , first , because of the narrowness of the ...
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... face , which is the most interesting portion , measures nine yards from the chin to the top of the forehead . The body , whose form and attitude are that of a crouching lion , is fifty - seven feet long , from the extremity of the fore ...
... face , which is the most interesting portion , measures nine yards from the chin to the top of the forehead . The body , whose form and attitude are that of a crouching lion , is fifty - seven feet long , from the extremity of the fore ...
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