THE EGYPTIAN SUDAN difficulty. The work of making the passage then continued, and at every foot of advance made inwards, we added sides and roof made of sleepers. At the end of a few days the passage was completed, and as it was about five feet high and five feet wide, we could walk through from one side to the other without difficulty.

It was quite clear now that there was no chamber of any sort or kind in the lower half of the pyramid, and we therefore attacked THK PASSAGE THROUGH I'YRAMII) NO. 14.

the upper half. We were unwilling to demolish it, so we decided to dig a hole downwards from the centre at the top until we reached the passage which we had made. This was done without trouble, and the big Egyptian artilleryman who was wielding the pick finished digging the hole much quicker than he expected by suddenly slipping through the loose stones into the passage below. He arrived in a shower of large black stones, a little bit frightened, but quite unhurt. Here, then, was conclusive proof that in a pyramid which must have been quite forty feet 350 I