10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DAHABEEAH»
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Outlying Europe and the Nearer Orient: A Narrative of Recent ...
Dahabeeah. It is the error of asserting that the dahabeeah is the more expensive
mode of travelling. Even the greatest enemies to the steamboat all agree in
admitting this one point : that to voyage by steamer is the cheaper way of
travelling.
OF the many pathways and modes of travel there are few more delightful than
that of making the ascent and descent of the Nile in the time-honored dahabeeah
. From the very earliest times travellers have praised the beauties of the classic ...
Ella Farman Pratt, Charles Trowbridge Pratt, Chautauqua Young Folks' Reading Union, 1885
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A Handbook for Travellers in Egypt: Including Descriptions ...
Introduction. — b. Voyage by steamer.*- c. Voyage in a dahaheeah with a [
dragoman. — d. Voyage in a dahabeeah without a dragoman.— e. General hints.
; f. Shooting, and Natural History. — g. Geography and Products. — h. Inhabitants
.
4
Writes of Passage: Reading Travel Writing
The dahabeeah would usually be furnished, but most travellers added their own
touches. They supplied their own blankets and linen, and often bought additional
chairs and carpets in Cairo. Nor was this all: 'The ladies of the party', Hoskins ...
James S. Duncan, Derek Gregory, 1999
5
Palms and Temples: Being Notes of a Four Months' Voyage Upon ...
Dahabeeah Salutations on the Nile — Beni Hassan — The Approach to the
Tombs — A Robber Haunt — The Egyptian Donkey — An ancient Custom in
modern Days — The Styx — Sugar Trash versus Coal — Minieh — Egyptian
Roses— ...
Julian T. Biddulph Arnold, 1882
6
Grant's Tour Around the World: With Incidents of His Journey ...
Sometimes a dahabeeah sweeps in sight, and we rush for the glasses. The
dahabeeah is an institution on the Nile, a cumbrous, quaint sailing machine, with
a single bending spar like the longest side of a right angled triangle. The
dahabeeah ...
7
A Tour Around the World by General Grant: Being a Narrative ...
Sometimes a dahabeeah sweeps in sight, and we rush for the glasses. The
dahabeeah is an institution on the Nile, a cumbrous, quaint-sailing machine, with
a single bending spar like the longest side of a right-angle triangle. The
dahabeeah ...
James Dabney McCabe, 1879
8
Hints for invalids and travellers, with observations on the ...
The third subject for consideration is the voyage up the Nile in a dahabeeah. This
presents advantages over the residence at Cairo or Helouan. It is of great
importance in this case that the voyage should be made as rapidly as possible, ...
9
Reminiscences of an old bohemian
A lively and nupretentious piece of work, while being based upon journals that
were kept from day to day, it gives an extremely faithful picture of a dahabeeah
voyage. Too often the Nile notes of romantic travellers seem to be steeped in the
...
Gustave Louis Maurice Strauss, 1883
They immediately ordered their boat to be pulled in to the shore ; and as Ismat
said he wanted to say something to them, they stepped on board his father's
dahabeeah, and went into the saloon, for the sake of coolness. Then the bright-
faced ...
