Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries Within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia and of a Journey to the Coas - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1822. Excerpt: ... and the prejudice already excited against me, for serving another nation, put before the public whatever he could persuade the censors to pass, and what he could not, he publicly asserted in a most atrocious manner. I had sent an answer to these publications to be inserted in the journals of Paris, but such were the intrigues carried on, that my reply was intercepted, and sent to Mr. Drouetti, in Alexandria; consequently it never reached the hands of the editors. At last, having put an end to all my affairs in Egypt, in the middle of September, 1819, we embarked, thank God! for Europe: not that I disliked the country I was in, for, on the contrary, I have reason to be grateful; nor do I complain of the Turks or Arabs in general, but of some Europeans who are in that country, whose conduct and mode of thinking are a disgrace to human nature. After an absence of twenty years I returned into the bosom of my family, from whence I departed for England; and having been persuaded to put before the world the narrative of my researches and operations in these countries, I hope the English reader will pardon me for the many errors I have committed in these volumes, particularly in the English phrases. SHORT ACCOUNT or THE WOMEN OF EGYPT, NUBIA, AND SYRIA: BY MRS. BELZONI. SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE WOMEN OF EGYPT, NUBIA, AND SYRIA: BY MRS. BELZONI., Having heard so much of Turks and Arabs, I took the opportunity, while in Egypt, to observe the manners of the women in that country. During my stay in Soubra, I had many occasions to remark them; but as it was my lot to ascend the Nile, I contrived to see the various modes of living among these half wild people. The first place we staid at for any length of time was Old Thebes; but I shall pass this, as I mean to speak of it...
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