TRAVELS OF WADDINGTON AND HANBURY same time they admit that they possess powers which may be of use to the true beHevers.

Near Moshi Messrs. Hanbury and Waddington met Messrs. Cailliaud and Letorzec with their interpreter and servant, and Mr. Waddington remarks concerning the meeting, " We merely "exchanged a few words of civihty in passing, and proceeded on " our respective destinations with as much indifference as if we "had met in the park or on the boulevard." M. Cailliaud also mentions the meeting, but was disappointed because he failed to obtain from Mr. Waddington any information about the antiquities of Gebel Barkal ; he was struck by Mr. Hanbury's " courteous manners," and would have liked to see more of him, for he thought that he might have been able to obtain from him the information which his companion had denied him. With reference to Mr. Waddington's published account of his travels, he thought it interesting, but believed that it would have had more value if the illustrations, which he declares only give a false idea of the antiquities which they profess to represent, had been omitted.

On their return journey Messrs. Hanbury and Waddington took care to visit the temple of Soleb, or Stilb, as the natives call it, and to make a plan of it ; '~ from the description which they gave of it it is quite clear that the remains of the temple were ' ''La je rencontiai MM. Waddington et Hanbury, voyageurs anglais qui " arrivaient de la province de Chaykye, terme de leur voyage. lis retournaient " au Caire. Les voyageurs aiment toujours a se faire accueil a d'aussi "grandes distances de leur pays : je me flattais que cette rencontre inattendue " allait me procurer I'avantage d'apprendre en quoi consistaient les antiquites " que les Arabes me disaient exister dans la province de Chaykye : je devais "moi-meme y arriver sous peu de jours. M. Waddington, a qui jadressai " cette question, qui n'avait rien d'indiscret, ne jugea pas neanmoins a propos " d'y rpondre ; il me laissa dans une ignorance complete. Aussi ma surprise fut " extreme, quand je fus arrive a Barkal, k I'aspect de ses grands monumens. "Jene pus voir qu'un moment M. Hanbury: ses manieres affables me firent " regretter de n'avoir pu jouir longtemps de son entretien ; j'aurais peut-etre tire " de lui les eclaircissemens que m'avait refuses son compagnon de voyage. " L'ouvrage interessant de ces voyageurs est aujourd'liui publi6 : il aurait plus " de meri e, s'ils n'y avaient pas insere des dessins qui ne peuvent donner que "des idees fausses sur la nature de ces antiquites." "Voyages k Meroe," torn, i., p. 395.

- See the plate facing p. 286 of their work.

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