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Title: Peeps at Many Lands: Egypt

Author: R. Talbot Kelly

Release Date: June 21, 2006 [EBook #18647]

Language: English

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[Illustration: BY STILL WATERS.]

[Illustration: SEBIL OF THE MOSQUE OF THE SULTAN KELAUN.]

PEEPS AT MANY LANDS

EGYPT

BY

R. TALBOT KELLY
R.I., R.B.A., F.R.G.S.
COMMANDER OF THE MEDJIDIEH

WITH TWELVE FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
IN COLOUR

BY

THE AUTHOR

LONDON
ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK
1916

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. ITS ANTIQUITY

II. THE LAND

III. CAIRO--I

IV. CAIRO--II

V. THE NILE--I

VI. THE NILE--II

VII. THE NILE--III

VIII. THE MONUMENTS

IX. THE PEOPLE

X. THE DESERT

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

SEBIL OF THE MOSQUE OF THE SULTAN KELAUN _frontispiece_

AN IRRIGATED FIELD

AN ARAB CAFE, CAIRO

A MOSQUE INTERIOR

A STREET IN CAIRO

A WATERING-PLACE

THE FIRST CATARACT FROM ELEPHANTINE ISLAND

THE PYRAMIDS OF GHIZEH FROM THE DESERT

THE COLOSSI OF THEBES--MOONRISE

A NILE VILLAGE

DESERT ARABS

BY STILL WATERS _on the cover_

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[Illustration: SKETCH-MAP OF EGYPT.]

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EGYPT

CHAPTER 1

ITS ANTIQUITY

Every boy or girl who has read the history of Joseph must often have
wondered what kind of a country Egypt might be, and tried to picture
to themselves the scenes so vividl