Journal of a Visit to Egypt, Constantinople, the Crimea, Greece, &c: In the Suite of the Prince and Princess of Wales |
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... gold ; on another camel was carried a sort of temple , or small mosque , in gold , about three yards wide . Then followed a most horrible sight - a half - naked and immensely fat man , sitting on a camel , rolling his head all round as ...
... gold ; on another camel was carried a sort of temple , or small mosque , in gold , about three yards wide . Then followed a most horrible sight - a half - naked and immensely fat man , sitting on a camel , rolling his head all round as ...
Page 30
... gold , and deco- rated with looking - glasses , and flags and beads of ev- ery possible kind . Natives on their backs in their wonderful costumes and finery , many playing on pipes and tomtoms . Troops closed the procession . As soon as ...
... gold , and deco- rated with looking - glasses , and flags and beads of ev- ery possible kind . Natives on their backs in their wonderful costumes and finery , many playing on pipes and tomtoms . Troops closed the procession . As soon as ...
Page 32
... Gold Bazar . After dinner to the French play . February 5. At twelve o'clock the Princess and I went to the harem of ... gold tray , with goblets and plates of gold and pre- cious stones . A slave then offered each of us a silver basin ...
... Gold Bazar . After dinner to the French play . February 5. At twelve o'clock the Princess and I went to the harem of ... gold tray , with goblets and plates of gold and pre- cious stones . A slave then offered each of us a silver basin ...
Page 33
... gold ; the other half of yellow satin , also trimmed with gold , and with a sort of turban on her head . She had a beautifully embroidered napkin , with gold fringe , hanging on her arm , and we were told that her office was equivalent ...
... gold ; the other half of yellow satin , also trimmed with gold , and with a sort of turban on her head . She had a beautifully embroidered napkin , with gold fringe , hanging on her arm , and we were told that her office was equivalent ...
Page 36
... gold , to dry our fingers with . Then we went again in procession to the large drawing - room or hall we had before passed through , and here we all sat down on a large divan . Music was then heard , and in marched about twenty musi ...
... gold , to dry our fingers with . Then we went again in procession to the large drawing - room or hall we had before passed through , and here we all sat down on a large divan . Music was then heard , and in marched about twenty musi ...
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Abdel Kader Bey April Ariadne arrived Assouan Baidar bazars beautiful boat Bosphorus breakfast bright cabin Cairo carriages Cataract Cloth coffee and pipes Colonel Constantinople Corfu Crimea crocodile dahabeah delight diamonds dined dinner dishes donkeys dressed drive dromedary drove Egypt Embassador English February four o'clock French garden gentlemen Glücksburg gold half past harem horses hour JOHN S. C. ABBOTT Karnak ladies landed look Lord Lord Gosford luncheon March morning mosque Mourad Pasha never nice night Nile nine o'clock palace party passed Philae Portrait pretty Prince and Princess PRINCESS OF WALES returned home ride rode round Royal Highnesses Russian Sebastopol Second Cataract seen sent seven o'clock ship side sight slave soon Stanton started steamer stopped Sultan Teesdale temple thing to-day told took town Trieste Turkish twelve o'clock Viceroy Viceroy's vols Wady Halfah walked whole wife