- The Turkish way of making love
The Turkish way of making love - A Nubian Belle
A Nubian Belle - Camel and Palanquin
Camel and palanquin [covered canopy - usually refers to a covered litter carried by men ] - The Present Situation
- On the Road to Cairo
- Donkey Drivers of Cairo
The beast par excellence of Egypt is the donkey; he ought to have a place on the national coat-of-arms, as much so as the llama has on that of Peru. The horses of Egypt are magnificent, some of pure Arabian, and some of a cross between English and Arabian stock, and are famous for their speed and beauty. But they are a luxury that not everybody can afford, as their support requires a constant outlay, not to speak of the first cost of the property. But the donkey is universal, and everybody can have one, unless he is the poorest of the poor. At every hotel door there are groups of them ready saddled at all hours of the day, and you can hire them cheaply. If you can make a bargain in advance you can hire a donkey at three or four francs a day, inclusive of the boy, to drive him, though the latter generally looks for backsheesh in addition to the price of the beast and saddle. I have hired donkeys frequently for half a franc an hour, though the hotel keepers tell you that a franc an hour is the proper fare. - Great Stone of Baalbek
But the wonder of Baalbek is in the stones used in its construction. Hewn stones, twelve, fifteen, and twenty feet long, and proportionately wide and high, are frequent in the walls and substructures. You grow weary of saying: “There’s one!” “Look at this!” “and this!” “and this!” You wander down in the underground passages, and the size of the stones, placed as precisely as bricks in a wall of a building of to-day, fairly astounds you; you come out, and look on the wall of the temple, and you find stones twenty-four, twenty-eight, and thirty feet long, and proportionally wide and high. You see stones of this sort away up in the air at the tip of the columns, and you wonder how they got there. - Baalbek
Baalbek (anc. Heliopolis), a town of the Buka‛a (Coelesyria), altitude 3850 ft., situated E. of the Litani and near the parting between its waters and those of the Asi. Pop. about 5000, including 2000 Metawali and 1000 Christians (Maronite and Orthodox). Since 1902 Baalbek has been connected by railway with Rayak (Rejak) on the Beirut-Damascus line, and since 1907 with Aleppo. It is famous for its temple ruins of the Roman period, before which we have no record of it, certain though it be that Heliopolis is a translation of an earlier native name, in which Baal was an element. - Girl with goat
- Home Visitors
- The approach to Constantinople
From Anselmi Banduri Imperium orientale, tome II., p. 448. 2 vols. folio. Parisiis, 1711. - On the Bank
- In a Coffee-house, Cairo
- A lady of the Harem
A lady of the Harem - The Bridge
- Lunching in Karnak
- Thebes, January 2, 1898
- Camel-back
- Benjamin of Tudela in the Desert of Sahara
This Jew was the son of a rabbi of Tudela, a town in Navarre, and he was called Benjamin of Tudela. It seems probable that the object of his voyage was to make a census of his brother Jews scattered over the surface of the Globe, but whatever may have been his motive, he spent thirteen years, from 1160-1173, exploring nearly all the known world, and his narrative was considered the great authority on this subject up to the sixteenth century. - At Philæ
- Interior of a Mosque
Interior of a Mosque To form a proper conception of the ceremonials of the Friday-prayers, it is necessary to have some idea of the interior of a mosque. A mosque in which a congregation assembles to perform the Friday-prayers is called “gámë’.” The mosques of 68Cairo are so numerous, that none of them is inconveniently crowded on the Friday; and some of them are so large as to occupy spaces three or four hundred feet square. They are 69mostly built of stone, the alternate courses of which are generally coloured externally red and white. Most commonly a large mosque consists of porticoes surrounding a square open court, in the centre of which is a tank or a fountain for ablution. One side of the building faces the direction of Mekkeh, and the portico on this side, being the principal place of prayer, is more spacious than those on the three other sides of the court. - Tombs of the Kings, Thebes
- In the Fish-Market
- Our Bisharin Friends, Assuan
- Shepheard’s Hotel, Cairo
- Egyptian High Life
- Guardians of the Temple
- Indifference
- Christmas Night—“Auld Lang Syne.”
- Statue of Thothmes, Karnak
- Temple of Ti
- At the Races, Khedival Sporting Club
- On Grenfell Hill. The Keeper of the Tomb
- Karnak, January 2, 1898
- At Lady Grenfell’s Masquerade Ball
- A Peddler
- On the Bank at Komombos
- Christmas, 1897
- Posing
- Beni-Hassan
- An Assuan Beggar
- A Son of the Desert
- Most of the day was spent with Baedeker
- Bedouin smoking with hookah
- An Artist in the Mouskie
- Hemalees
The hemalee carries, upon his back, a vessel (called “ibreek”) of porous grey earth. This vessel cools the water. Sometimes the hemalee has an earthen kulleh of water scented with “móyet zahr” (or orange-flower-water), prepared from the flowers of the “náring” (a bitter orange), for his best customers; and often a sprig of náring is stuck in the mouth of his ibreek. - Desert dweller
- British Influence
- All, the Pilot
- At Komombos
- 'As good an imitation of Monte Carlo as the law allows.'
- An Assiût Donkey
- bedouin
- Man in fez
- Bedouin 2
- Old man wearing fez
- Postures of Prayer (Part II.)
- An Egyptian Water-Carrier
- Young bedouin girl
- Bedouin shaking his fist