PYRAMIDS OF MERGE long, stragglinj thorny bushes made progress slow, but eventually we came out of the belt of scrub and entered a sandy plain which was bestrewn with large bits of stone of brownish-black colour and having a shiny surface. In the distance ahead of us was a range of low stone hills, and in looking at these I saw in front of them a number of smaller hills, with regularly sloping sides, and, remembering the drawings of Cailliaud and Hoskins, it v/as easy to recognize in them the Pyramids of Meroe. They did not A BOY ON A LIGHT PLATFORM SCARING BIRDS FROM THE DHURRA.

The Shekh of Bagiavviya is exhorting him to greater diligence.

appear to be more than a mile from where we were, and I wished to press on to see them closer, but so soon as we came to the well-defined series of tracks running from north to south, which the shekh said was the Berber road, he was afraid to go any further and begged me to return. He said that in the early evening the spirits of those who had built the tarabtl, or pyramids, left their abodes and came out and talked with each other, and that some of them, i.e., those who had been wicked on 1 Specimens of these are in the British Museum, Nos. 42,151 and 42,152.

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