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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... past ten in the morning of January 16. We started at once by special train for Hamburg , where we arrived at 1.30 P.M. , and drove to the Victoria Hotel . Our party , including the servants , was now forty- two in all . The weather much ...
... past ten in the morning of January 16. We started at once by special train for Hamburg , where we arrived at 1.30 P.M. , and drove to the Victoria Hotel . Our party , including the servants , was now forty- two in all . The weather much ...
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... past three , arriving very late at Beni- hassan . February 11. Went over to the big boat , as usual , for breakfast ; but the Princess and I returned to the dahabeah soon after it , and staid there the whole day , having luncheon sent ...
... past three , arriving very late at Beni- hassan . February 11. Went over to the big boat , as usual , for breakfast ; but the Princess and I returned to the dahabeah soon after it , and staid there the whole day , having luncheon sent ...
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... past eleven mounted our donkeys to ride to Karnak . On first arriving you come upon some sphinxes , of which you can see there has been a whole avenue , though all are now more or less destroyed . At the Karnak . 59 end of this avenue ...
... past eleven mounted our donkeys to ride to Karnak . On first arriving you come upon some sphinxes , of which you can see there has been a whole avenue , though all are now more or less destroyed . At the Karnak . 59 end of this avenue ...
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... past two o'clock when I got to bed , very tired , after having been riding and walking about , more or less , since six in the morning , when I got up . I slept badly , and got up at nine . February 19. Left Thebes at 6 A.M. Breakfasted ...
... past two o'clock when I got to bed , very tired , after having been riding and walking about , more or less , since six in the morning , when I got up . I slept badly , and got up at nine . February 19. Left Thebes at 6 A.M. Breakfasted ...
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... past six we re - embarked in our dahabeah , as they had at last suc- ceeded in getting the big steamer off the bank by means of the small steamer , which dragged it off . While we were here struggling to get off , two poor men who had ...
... past six we re - embarked in our dahabeah , as they had at last suc- ceeded in getting the big steamer off the bank by means of the small steamer , which dragged it off . While we were here struggling to get off , two poor men who had ...
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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 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
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