Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-07-01

ship subsidy educatlon' TOT WHICH tHS
league made a large payment to him
to cover the cost of copies furnished.
lures and symbols, some of which are
unite we'll DONE and all are very Inter
esting.
TOMB OF AMENOPHIS II.
Manifestly, it would have been impos-
sible TO enter all Of the 40 tombs in our
limited time so we chose two Of the
most interesting ones, those OF Amend
phis III and Seti /. The tomb OF Amend
phis was only discovered in 1898. Part
of the contents have been left as an IL
lustration of other tombs, including he
body of Amenophis II himself, wrapped
in it's shroud and still adorned with gar
lands In a small room adjoining are
three mumified bodies said to have been
the bodies Of three servant girls Of the
king, who were killed when he died. This
tomb has been lighted with electricity
and the mummihed bodies Of the king
and these three servants presents quite
a Sruesome appearance when the electric
light Is turned on them. There they are.
and there they have been for $500 years,
peacefully sleeping, awaiting the coming
OF the Ka, who has never come during
all those years, and will never come.
It is a pitiable spectacle. Oh. that they
had only known of Him who said: i
am the resurrection and the life; he that
believsth on me, though he were dead
yet shall he live; and whatsoever liveth
and believeth in me shall never die"
TOMB OF SETI l.
The most beautiful and most elaborate
tomb of all is that of Seti l, whose
daughter discovered Moses, and the faith
err of Ramses II. 1t was discovered IN
1877 and is called Belzoni's tomb from
it's discoverer. The sarcophagus was
found 46 feet below the surface. The body
has been removed, and is now in the mu-
scum at Cairo, where we shall see II.
The pictures and representations on thu
walls are quite striking. 1 wish l had
the space to speak of them in detail, but
that alone would require whole article.
1t seems the very irony of fate that after
so elaborate preparation for the preser-
va ton Of their bodies and after hiding
them away so carefully these bodies
should have been taken out 500 years
later, and hidden in another place to pre-
vent their being stolen, and then 5000
years later still, should have been
brought to light and placed in a museum
where they serve only as objects OF in
terest to sightseers from all over the
world.
AN INCIDENT.
One or two incidents of the day may
trate some experience encountered by ev-
cry tourist in Egypt. Several times dur
ing the morning I had been offered by
men along the route little trinkets, pur-
porting to have been used by the an
cient Egyptians, such as small mon
key, a lamp, a figure OF some IDOL ETC.,
and several times 1 had purchased until
my pockets were stuffed about full. As l
was riding on my donkey to the tomb Of
the kings-reminding him, DR.. Willard
said, of Balaam on his ass, though Just
what was the point of resemblance he
did not explain, and do not sea man
caught up with me and offered me
small idol, purporting to be Osiris, the
god of the dead. I tried to wave him
away, but he would not stop. whipped.
or rather kicked, UP my donkey, but he
kept up with me. 1 took one Of the pur-
chases had made out of my pocket and
showed IL to him to let him understand
that I had purchased a similar idol and
did not need another. mot the same"
he said. asked him how much he would
take for his He said 1t would sell for
two pounds $50 In Cairo, but I might
have it for Ave francs CD. I offered
him a piastre q Ia cents) for 1t. My
Godr' he said in tolerably good English,
1T must i've" 1 kicked up my donkey.
He ran after me. He said: IT am very
tired I thought, why don't you stop and
go back home. then7" He said. How
much will you giveT' Half a piastre,"
1 replied. 1.-TWO piastres" 90 cents). he
said Half a piastre." "A pias-
tire and a half" he said. "One piastre," I
said Take it." he said, and before I
knew it, 1t was in my hand. He then
started to sell me something else, but I
told him that he had better run on back
home, and he followed my advice. As we
were returning from the tombs of the
kiD1a 7 nv purchase to Ahmed.
our guide. He looked at it, and said 1t
was "of yesterday" He asked me If I
gave half a piastre for it. told him I
gave q piastre. He said the fellow cheat
ell me out of the other half.
ANOTHER INCIDENT.
It has been agreed by our party that
we would each give so much 10 our DON
key boys in the way of backsheesh, be-
sides the price of the donkey. Several
times my donkey boy. Hamed Moham-
med, asked me for backsheesh. I told
him I would give him backsheesh when
we got back to the boat. When I gave
him the amount which had been agreed
upon. he, was not satisfied. He followed |
me into the boat, asking for more. told
Dr. Willard. who was on the boat, the
situation. He said to Hamed: You say
IL Is not enough?" Yes" well, give X
here" He did so. DR.. Willard handed
it to me and said, Put 1t in your pock
ct. T. did. Hamed uttered cry as 1t
disappeared. He said he did not mean
that well, give 1t back to him." said
DR.. Willard 1 did so. He took 1t and
went off, apparently satisfied Our guide. |
Ahmed, says that there are two great
drawbacks to Egypt-backsheesh and
flies. There is much truth in the re-
mark. Both are pests of the nat In
tenselZ annoying character.