FERLINI'S EXCAVATIONS and a number of solid white, transparent objects, presumably made of glass, rolled out of it. When Ferlini and his friend had opened two other pyramids, and had found nothing of special interest, they began seriously to consider their position, which was certainly not an enviable one. They were engaged on a piece of work which was costly, and their personal discomfort was very considerable ; the heat was great, their food was bad, and they distrusted the natives so much, that one or the other of them had to keep watch during the night lest they should be robbed and VIEW OF THE PYRAMID (CAITJ.IAUD F) nEMOLISHED liV FERLINI.

murdered. Ferlini decided to continue the work for a short time longer, and to make a last attempt. The smaller pyramids he abandoned, and, after a careful examination of the large pyramid?;, he decided to attack the one which Cailliaud has marked F on his plan, and has described at some length in his Voyage, tom. ii., p.

157 ff., plates (tom. i.) xli. and xliii. It was one of the largest pyramids of the group, and was about eighty-eight feet high ; the length of each side at the base was about sixty-one feet. As will be seen from the view of it reproduced here from Cailliaud's work, the pyramid was nearly complete, and its chapel and pylon were in a good state of preservation. A portion of the casing of the VOL. I. 289 u