- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Note on Transliteration and Spelling
- Abbreviations Used in the Notes
- Prologue
-
1 A Zealous Attachment -
2 An Eastern Bridegroom -
3 Altogether an Arabian City -
4 Mansur Effendi -
5 A Closer Acquaintance with Cairo -
6 Never a More Happy Time -
7 Life on the Nile -
8 Nubia -
9 Hundred-Gated Thebes -
10 Minarets and Pyramids -
11 A Second Voyage to Nubia -
12 Nefeeseh -
13 Culture Shock -
14 Description of Egypt -
15 Manners and Costumes -
16 Old Musr Once More -
17 Blackening Many Quires -
18 Perception and Reality -
19 The Great Plague of 1835 -
20 Not a Mummy Crosses His Path -
21 Arabian Nights -
22 Scholar and Man of Letters -
23 Midlife -
24 An English Harem in Egypt -
25 Harat al-Sakkayin -
26 The Englishwoman in Egypt -
27 Suq al-Qawadis -
28 Hastings -
29 Worthing -
30 The Arabic-English Lexicon - Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
Old Musr Once More
Old Musr Once More
- Chapter:
- (p.289) 16 Old Musr Once More
- Source:
- Edward William Lane 1801–1876
- Author(s):
Jason Thompson
- Publisher:
- American University in Cairo Press
Lane found Alexandria more dismal than ever. It had rained heavily for three days and the streets were still muddy. Rain is rare in Egypt, even on the coast at Alexandria, but when it comes, the puddles linger an inordinately long while. Lane found that his expenses to date had left him with less than £15 of the £60 advance from Knight, taking stock of his finances the next morning, but he was authorized to draw a bill for a further payment of £50, which Harris cashed at 6 percent discount. The value of the pound sterling against the Egyptian piaster had increased by over 30 percent since his first trip, £1 now being 95 piasters, at least partially offsetting some fairly steep price rises during that time.
Keywords: Alexandria, Knight, sterling, piaster, Egypt
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Note on Transliteration and Spelling
- Abbreviations Used in the Notes
- Prologue
-
1 A Zealous Attachment -
2 An Eastern Bridegroom -
3 Altogether an Arabian City -
4 Mansur Effendi -
5 A Closer Acquaintance with Cairo -
6 Never a More Happy Time -
7 Life on the Nile -
8 Nubia -
9 Hundred-Gated Thebes -
10 Minarets and Pyramids -
11 A Second Voyage to Nubia -
12 Nefeeseh -
13 Culture Shock -
14 Description of Egypt -
15 Manners and Costumes -
16 Old Musr Once More -
17 Blackening Many Quires -
18 Perception and Reality -
19 The Great Plague of 1835 -
20 Not a Mummy Crosses His Path -
21 Arabian Nights -
22 Scholar and Man of Letters -
23 Midlife -
24 An English Harem in Egypt -
25 Harat al-Sakkayin -
26 The Englishwoman in Egypt -
27 Suq al-Qawadis -
28 Hastings -
29 Worthing -
30 The Arabic-English Lexicon - Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index