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ing building; some of the rooms are
hewn into the rocks, and 1t can only
be reached by rope pulleys.
We visited next the tombs of Beni-
Hassan. This is the most lawless place
we have stopped at. AT one time
there must have been large village,
from the extensive remains, but the
entire place was burned by the gov
ernment troops not very long ago to
repress the thievish Arabs who
swarm around the visitors soldiers
are stationed here to accompany and
guard the travellers. The tombs are
In the face of the cliff and very Won
derful; they are adorned with col
umns and paintings, incidents of life,
and immense portraits of the occu-
pants. Near by was once a cemetery
for which were mummies, like all the
"dead corpusses" around here.
We spend whole day on boat,
with only fine scenery for variety,
and the growing interest in
each other on board. The air is
very fine, though warm, the sky
clearer and bluer each day,
the Libyan mountains yellow in
the distance. We pass Antinoe,
where there is an American mission
cullege, and visit the largest sugar
mandatory, where 1000 men are
worked 80 days in the year at twenty
cents apiece per day. The natives do
the work with only piece of cloth
around their loins, no shoes or shirts.
The sugar cane is as sweet as honey.
AT Assioot we spent the night,
$50 miles from Cairo, village built
on the site of an ancient Egyptian
city. Snet, like Cairo, it has large
bazaars, where every Arabic and
Egyptian curiosity can be purchased.
1t is famous for its red pottery that
we have read 80 much about. Mar
kets are held every Saturday here,
where every thing and kind of animal,
from a goat to a captured hyena, is
for sale.
1t is most amusing to watch the ma
tive peddlars of their wares, pottery,
silks, beaded bags, jewelry, musical
instruments, amid the dire and con-
fusion, singing, dancing, begging,
hallooing. Every little while the po-
lice comes along and whips several of
the loudest and quells the riot for a lit
tie while. Near here in the mountain
side, are the tombs of the sacred wolf,
one can pick up embalmed legs, arms,
paws and hands to his hearts con-
tent, but our hearts were contented
to leave them all where we found
them, as we never were "epicures"
about certain kinds of preserved
"viands."
Numerous temples we're visited
when we stopped at places of interest,
all on the same general plan, court
walls with sculpture scenes and
hieroglyphic Inscriptions with in,
ner courts and rooms, stairways and
obelisks, all covered with these char
acters in relief, some of it very fine
and expressive, but most OF 1t in
tensely obscure-each and all dedi.
Gated to some ancient divinity.
At last we arrive at Luxor. the
modern village, built on the ruins of
the Thebes, the greatest city of its
times, said to have been approached
by a hundred gates. The rufus Of
Karnak, of which there are simply
acres, are at least mile away, ap.
preached by an avenue lined on each
side with sphinxes. The great tenn
pie is beyond all description, i'm.
mense halls, at least hundred and
fifty gigantic columns, several
red granite obelisks, every inch
of surface covered with in
scriptions, and grotesque reliefs.
The Nile is crossed In boat, and
another long donkey ride across hot,
sandy plains to the Libyan Mountains
to visit the tombs of kings, that are
in excavations in the rocks, that are
several hundred feet long, descended
into by stairways. There are num-
erous rooms where the walls arc
covered with brilliant paintings Of
curious and odd scenes. The colors
are just as fresh as if recently paint.
ed, when in fact they have been
there thousands of years. The mum.
mics were removed from these tombs
hundreds of years ago and secretly
inferred somewhere else.
Below the mountain is another
great temple, approached by another
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