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... tion of Suez ; but at the time I wondered if it was public and I might go in . As I stood dubious in the dark , a neat tweed - suited man in a tarbush the Egyptian for fez - strolled up and addressed me . I understood no word , yet it ...
... tion of Suez ; but at the time I wondered if it was public and I might go in . As I stood dubious in the dark , a neat tweed - suited man in a tarbush the Egyptian for fez - strolled up and addressed me . I understood no word , yet it ...
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... tion of the Nile banks raises produce for Cook , and for him alone . In other countries the lower middle - classes aspire to a place under Government ; in Egypt they aspire to a place under Cook . " Good Cook shob all the time , " is ...
... tion of the Nile banks raises produce for Cook , and for him alone . In other countries the lower middle - classes aspire to a place under Government ; in Egypt they aspire to a place under Cook . " Good Cook shob all the time , " is ...
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... tion , and summer - heat , Egypt must be a par- adise ; of a man without this it must soon break the heart . You must laugh or die . Add that it is the half - way house of the whole world : that you meet this man on his way from Borneo ...
... tion , and summer - heat , Egypt must be a par- adise ; of a man without this it must soon break the heart . You must laugh or die . Add that it is the half - way house of the whole world : that you meet this man on his way from Borneo ...
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... tion and first building of the Barrage are due to a Frenchman - Mougel Bey - in Mahomet Ali's time , nearly sixty years ago . sixty years ago . Only it took twenty years to make , and even then was not finished ; only the Rosetta half ...
... tion and first building of the Barrage are due to a Frenchman - Mougel Bey - in Mahomet Ali's time , nearly sixty years ago . sixty years ago . Only it took twenty years to make , and even then was not finished ; only the Rosetta half ...
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... tion , for example , to the formation of nouns , verbs , adjectives , and adverbs from each other , and to the commonest prefixes and affixes- just the sort of thing in which the native usually goes wrong . And the history they learn in ...
... tion , for example , to the formation of nouns , verbs , adjectives , and adverbs from each other , and to the commonest prefixes and affixes- just the sort of thing in which the native usually goes wrong . And the history they learn in ...
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