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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Page 15
... pretty , and the decorations of all the adjoining rooms very bright , and tastefully done . Came home at three o'clock . January 20. Went out shopping early in the morn- ing with my maid , and at one o'clock to a skating party at the ...
... pretty , and the decorations of all the adjoining rooms very bright , and tastefully done . Came home at three o'clock . January 20. Went out shopping early in the morn- ing with my maid , and at one o'clock to a skating party at the ...
Page 19
... piano . From thence I went to a ball called the " Picnic " ball , also in the Burg , given every week for a charitable object . The music was excellent , but it was not otherwise a pretty ball . I did not get to bed till two o'clock , with.
... piano . From thence I went to a ball called the " Picnic " ball , also in the Burg , given every week for a charitable object . The music was excellent , but it was not otherwise a pretty ball . I did not get to bed till two o'clock , with.
Page 21
... pretty effect . The sea was perfectly calm ; and the moon shining over the town , and on the distant snow - topped Alps , with the innu- merable ships lying in the harbor , made it altogether a perfect picture . After we had all retired ...
... pretty effect . The sea was perfectly calm ; and the moon shining over the town , and on the distant snow - topped Alps , with the innu- merable ships lying in the harbor , made it altogether a perfect picture . After we had all retired ...
Page 27
... pretty drawing - room , where we had coffee , and then beautiful long Eastern pipes were handed round , all the mouthpieces being of the lightest - colored am- ber , and set with large rings of diamonds and pre- cious stones ! The money ...
... pretty drawing - room , where we had coffee , and then beautiful long Eastern pipes were handed round , all the mouthpieces being of the lightest - colored am- ber , and set with large rings of diamonds and pre- cious stones ! The money ...
Page 36
... pretty , though some movements were graceful enough . Others , on the contrary , were simply frightful . For instance , they had a way of moving and shaking their heads and other parts of their bodies all separately , as if no one part ...
... pretty , though some movements were graceful enough . Others , on the contrary , were simply frightful . For instance , they had a way of moving and shaking their heads and other parts of their bodies all separately , as if no one part ...
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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