The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1910-03-31
He AND KERMIT RIDE a COUPLE
OF KHEDlvE'S cAMELS TO AN.
GENT ToMss AND RUINS.
CURIOUS OF ANCIENT METHODS
Ambassador Straus Joins Party and
Visit Is Declared Politically
Unimportant-Cairo Is
Roosevelt Mad.

Ntll anu MS party were cal ~ hSNh
In preparing for visit to the Ne.
cropolis of SAX Kara, where are the
wonderful tombs of various kings Of
Thy and Of the Apis Bulls
A portion of Friday night was
spent in viewing the Sphinx by moon.
light. Colonel Roosevelt said Satur.
day that the weird sight had been
thoroughly enjoyed by himself and
his familr. II was the most interest.
ing thing he had seen during his trip
OF Africa.
Friday night Colonel Roosevelt and
his family returned to Cairo, dined
with the American consul general,
Mr.. Iddings, and later attended ban.
Gorst, tho British agent and consul
general in Egypt
Major F. X. Watson Pacha, aid de
camp TO the Khediye. who met Col.
onel Roosevelt a year ago at Port
Said, was an early caller at the Mena
House Saturday He paid the re-
spects of the Khedive to the Ameri-
can huntsman and rendered to MIN
the use Of the Khediye's special cam.
81 corps for the eightmile ride across
the desert Of Sakkara.
Such tender always is a special
mark OF favor and Colonel Roosevelt
accepted It with much pleasure
Ladies' Decline Camels.
The Colonel and Kermit each rode
one Of the animals over the dreary
waste to Metropolis. but Mrs. Roose.
welt and Miss Ethel chose q more
comfortable sand cart
Arriving at the tombs OF the Bulls
oil Apis. the oldest OF which dates
back to 1900 b. c., the time OF the
reign OF Amenophis Ill, the sight.
scers were met by an Archaeological,
who had been instructed to act as
their guide. With lighted candles the
Americans entered the dark caverns
and looked with interest upon the
huge sarcophagii.
Colonel Roosevelt evinced great Gu
riosity In the methods used by the
ancient Egyptians, and piled the
Eryptologist with numerous ques.
tons. One sarcophagus was opened
and lighted candles were lowered
into it, in order to show how the
mammoth bulls were lowered into
their final resting place.
From the tombs of the bulls the
party proceeded to the temples and
the tomb Of Thy, a pebean. who lived
in the Fifth Dynasty, but who was
so esteemed that he was permitted to
marry princess.
straus Joins Party.
Here Colonel Roosevelt and his
family were Joined by Oscar S.
Straus, the American ambassador to
Turkey and Mrs Straus, Mr. Iddlngs
and Miss lddings.
From the temple Colonel Roosevelt
and his party repaired to the home Of
the archaeologist. where they stopped
for q few minutes to partake of re.
freshments. Between the temples
and tombs and the temples and the
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