The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-24

helper, would lift my left foot to the
block and easily raise myself to it. In
this way came to the top without
very great fatigue, though the perspi-
ration poured as if subjected to DR..
Hansen's highest temperature.
Upon reaching the top there stood
MIR. Smith and one of the young ladies,
who had beaten me in their journey.
Our resolute and ssand-up-and-a-com-
ing party were now assembled upon
the apex of Cheops, standing upon a
floor twenty feet square. informed
my comrades of the distinction which
had enjoyed in having DR.. Mahmod
as my assistant. I now directed the
Doctor to make an examination of my
pulse, to see if l was all right. He did
so, and bid me run out my tongue for
his professional observation. Idirect-
ed him now to examine each one of
the party. In like manner he felt the
pulse and looked at the tongue, and an
nounced each to be in good condition.
The city below, the green fields be-
fore us, and the arid desert without a
green thing behind us, were the
three subjects of observation. Away
off upon the road we espied the drove
of carriages with their loads of WISH
tors. This suggested that we COM
plete our view and make the descent
and entrance to the interior of the
great vault above, and thus free our
selves from the dangers and discom.
forts of the crowd. This we success
fully accomplished, although the la
Dor of the descent was quite as great
as that of the ascent.
The entrance to the Pyramid is by
low passage-Ways sometimes crawling
on all tours, sometimes descending by
steps, and sometimes ascending. At
times this passage is by lofty galleries,
and then again by obscure and cramp-
ed ways. Atlength the Kings Cham
Der is reached-a room made of polish
ed red granite, sixteen feet wide, and
thirty feet long and twenty feet high,
as paced it's length and width, and
measured it's height with my eye. In
this dark abode is large empty stone
sarcophagus. There is another room
under this one, called the Queens
Room.
We are very glad to get out Of these
gloomy and dark caverns to the light
of Gods bright day. Though our fee
of one dollar paid to the Sheik is in
tended to be sufficient, yet the cry for
''Backshish'' from our guides is inter-
minable and Unsuitable. I had paid
the doctor all the francs to which his
good offices including his professional
services were entitled. Still he was
clamoring for more, and to such an ex-
tent, that turned upon him with a
vengeful mein, and in stern language,
rebuked him for his rapacity. Upon
this the aged and venerable Sheik adj
vanced and asked me if he should whip
the doctor.
I directed him to give him six
blows, whereupon the old Sheik raised
his stick and gave him three. Seeing
the wrteched, crestfallen state of the
Doctor, my heart failed me, and I ar
rested the punishment. Mahmod sat
down upon the rock and hung his head
in silence. He had been very commu.
NEGATIVE with me, informing me that
he had farm of five acres in the val
ley /; that he had to pay tax to the
government of two pounds on each
acre that if he had excellent crops he
might possibly make above the tax ten
or fifteen pounds year. He told me,
also, that he had an Arab mare that
he would send his brother for, and let
me ride her upon the desert, a thing
would have liked to do. I think the
doctor stretched little, however,
about his mare-the presumption
being that he had no such possession.
He told me that he had one wife, and
was anxious to get some money ahead
wat he might get another. This I
think was true.
We visited the Sphinx and it's buried
temple not far away. Stupendous
monuments of the greatness and the
power of generations of men who long,
long ago performed their part in
human affairs Nothing impressed
me more tim the vast size of the
blocks Of polished red granite seen in
the perfect masonry Of this vast tein-
pie, which has lain for ages buried
here in the sands of the desert.
Funerals of 1776.
Funerals touched weddings at the
point of feasting, and were often very
expensive, snowy, and pompous &C.
casions. In some parts of, the, coun-
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