The Fayoum: Or, Artists in EgyptH. S. King & Company, 1873 - 298 páginas |
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... passed almost by chance through the street in which Cleopatra's Needles are , and observed that to the traveller only one of those monuments is percep- tible . The first is literally buried under rubbish of every description , and the ...
... passed almost by chance through the street in which Cleopatra's Needles are , and observed that to the traveller only one of those monuments is percep- tible . The first is literally buried under rubbish of every description , and the ...
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... passed us at full speed ; in this more aristocratic quarter the authorities have prudently prohibited camel traffic , which is a terrible complication of a crowded eastern thoroughfare . At least twenty times , in our headlong progress ...
... passed us at full speed ; in this more aristocratic quarter the authorities have prudently prohibited camel traffic , which is a terrible complication of a crowded eastern thoroughfare . At least twenty times , in our headlong progress ...
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... passing through Bab el Nasr . We entered the East by the most beautiful street in Cairo , and we left the city by its most beautiful gate ; in order to visit the most beautiful monuments of modern Egypt . Either Ma- homet favoured us ...
... passing through Bab el Nasr . We entered the East by the most beautiful street in Cairo , and we left the city by its most beautiful gate ; in order to visit the most beautiful monuments of modern Egypt . Either Ma- homet favoured us ...
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... passed so rapidly . The traffic in the streets of Cairo awakens in the newly - arrived traveller a singular sense of apprehension , which obliges him to devote his first moments , with an unpleasant exclusiveness , to the avoiding of ...
... passed so rapidly . The traffic in the streets of Cairo awakens in the newly - arrived traveller a singular sense of apprehension , which obliges him to devote his first moments , with an unpleasant exclusiveness , to the avoiding of ...
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... passed before us , that many distant populations were represented on this special occasion . Numbers of the spectators must have come from afar , judging by the many - coloured tents which were pitched under the walls of the town . This ...
... passed before us , that many distant populations were represented on this special occasion . Numbers of the spectators must have come from afar , judging by the many - coloured tents which were pitched under the walls of the town . This ...
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