Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-06-10

it has a different color. The inscrip-
lions are plain and many were in
terpreted to US.
AS we pass back through the work
of Ramises, on large base we see
the Jews in slavery, large numbers
carved in the base with ropes tied
round their arms; across on another
base we see the African in slavery
with arms similarly tied behind the
back. This verifies the bible in it's
description of the Jews at the time
they fed from Egypt. And a pecu-
liar feature, while they have found
the mummy Of Ramises father and
his successor, his remains have not
been found, which if not found,
would corroborate the bible history
Of his destruction in the red sea.
Beautiful granite statues are seen on
all sides. OF all the temples visited
this impressed me as greatest
On our return to the hotel, donkey
boy Joseph, suggested that l hire a
donkey from him, and my sons dom
key boy Solomon one for the next
days ride that we might see fully
Thebes. This l arranged for and the
following morning we were rowed
over on the other side of the Nile to
find our donkeys in waiting. AS we
rode up through the sandy bed of
the stream we see a great area of
MELONS, that By May will be ready
undates, which will be forty feet
deep where they have them planted.
We stop at many places, and finally
reach the great funeral temple at the
other end of the avenue of rams
headed sphinx. Here at the death
of a royal parsonage they were car
ried under the protection of these
sphinx. Here for days was gone
through the last rites; during this
service all the servants of the de-
ceased were killed, embalmed and
with their most prized valuables were
placed in the stone hewn tombs with
them.
From this place We ride about five
miles to the great desert burial
place. No one would suggest that
here were buried those that at one
time had ruled the world. The To-
cation is in the great desert, nothing
but drifting sand with an occasional
rock protruding. Here they have
discovered those great hewn caverns
where were buried these Pharoahs,
and here we saw them as they were
buried l will only describe two of
these tombs. We, enter the tomb
supposed to be the tomb of Seti the
First. When this was found, show
ing his name inscribed on the in
side, the, natives felt that they would
get great riches that were buried
with him; they followed those great
hewn out halls, down flights of
stairs and finally came to a great
hole chiseled in the rock, perhaps
fifty feet square and one hundred
feet deep. This was filled with stone
and the natives entirely excavated
it, finding nothing in it. Fooled in
their work they sounded the walls,
and digging through where hollow
sound echoed, they found great
chambers beyond with the inscrip-
ton Seti 1st., but though there were
the shelves for the remains nothing
was found. This entire work had
{, been done to lead the vandal astray
and no one had been buried there,
though the entrance had been thor
oughly sealed and concealed with
desert sand.
A few years since an Arab vandal
brought a gold necklace to Luxor
and offered it for sale. 1t was APP
parent that this was the necklace of
one of the wives Of Seti 1st., and
they, after trying all other means to
get information, put this Arab to
torture and forced him to lead them
where he had found this necklace.
1t was located over the mountain
about three miles, and here after
digging far back they found the re-
mains of Seti the LIST, the one
had seen in the museum at Cairo.
We enter another, this one ex-
tended far back into the mountain,
going down two long flights OF
stairs hewn in the stone. and here
we saw the mummy lying in the
, Sarcophagus as it was found. This
was all that remained of that once
powerful Pharoah Amenophis the
Third, the builder of the temple OF
Luxor, the son of Amnon in whose
memory he erected the colossi OF
memnon of which l will later men
: ton.
This Amenophis was of the eight
dynasty. Near him on great hewn
out shelf in the rock lay his servants
/, as thew had been placed to be with