Achmet CHAPTER V.

THE PYRAMID" AND MEMPHIS.

Howlteg Dervlahfts—A Chi<Aen Factory—Ricte to the fyramida—Quarrel with the Arabs—The Ascent—View from the Summit—Backsheesh—Effect of Pyramid cUnibing-The Sphinx—Playing the Cadi—We obtain Justice-Yisit to Sakkara and the Mummy Pits—The Exhumation of Memphis—Interview with M. Marietta -Account of his Discoveries—Statue of Eemeses II.—Return to the Nile.

"And Morning opes in haste her lida, To gaze upon ttio Pyramids."—Emeesow.

We went no further than the village of Gizeh, three or four miles above Cairo, on the first evening, having engaged our donkeys and their drivers to meet us there and convey us to the Pyramids on the following morning. About dusk, the rais moored our boat to the bank, beside a College of dervishes, "whose unearthly chants, choruses and clapping of hands, were prolonged far into the night. Their wild cries, and deep, mo-