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THE PYRAMIDS.
something foreshortened ; I had to keep repeating
to myself that the tower of Strasbourg Cathedral
might stand beneath the apex, and I found even
then I did not quite believe my own reasoning about
it.
We were soon in the usual mob of fellaheen anxious
to be chosen as assistants for the ascent, on account of
whom we had previously determined to forego a visit to
the Pyramids unless we could join a party with gentle-
men ; for they are an unruly and turbulent set, and
only a very short time before a most unpleasant attack
had been made by them upon a couple of gentlemen,
and some blood been shed ; the fellaheen had probably
been roughly treated, as the gentlemen in question were
Americans, and I believe that a little quiet firmness,
with the declaration that you are English, and the
determination not to be put into a passion by their
noisy and extortionate demands, will soon secure the
comparative comfort of the traveller. But one must
make up one's mind to purchase the interesting result
of examining the Pyramids, by a thoroughly disagree-
able process in every Avay; I am most glad to have
done it, but nothing Avould induce me to repeat the
operation, and I would earnestly dissuade an)' and
every lady who is not entirely sure of her own nerves
and self-control, and who is not very strong, from at-
tempting it. Gentlemen who go to Egypt on account
of delicate lungs or imperfect circulation, probably do
themselves as much injury by the effort of visiting either
the outside or inside of the Pyramid, as the delightful
climate is calculated to do them good ; still worse if
they indulge in the absurd school-boy emulation of who
can get up first.
The only right way to get through the ordeal is to be
THE PYRAMIDS.
something foreshortened ; I had to keep repeating
to myself that the tower of Strasbourg Cathedral
might stand beneath the apex, and I found even
then I did not quite believe my own reasoning about
it.
We were soon in the usual mob of fellaheen anxious
to be chosen as assistants for the ascent, on account of
whom we had previously determined to forego a visit to
the Pyramids unless we could join a party with gentle-
men ; for they are an unruly and turbulent set, and
only a very short time before a most unpleasant attack
had been made by them upon a couple of gentlemen,
and some blood been shed ; the fellaheen had probably
been roughly treated, as the gentlemen in question were
Americans, and I believe that a little quiet firmness,
with the declaration that you are English, and the
determination not to be put into a passion by their
noisy and extortionate demands, will soon secure the
comparative comfort of the traveller. But one must
make up one's mind to purchase the interesting result
of examining the Pyramids, by a thoroughly disagree-
able process in every Avay; I am most glad to have
done it, but nothing Avould induce me to repeat the
operation, and I would earnestly dissuade an)' and
every lady who is not entirely sure of her own nerves
and self-control, and who is not very strong, from at-
tempting it. Gentlemen who go to Egypt on account
of delicate lungs or imperfect circulation, probably do
themselves as much injury by the effort of visiting either
the outside or inside of the Pyramid, as the delightful
climate is calculated to do them good ; still worse if
they indulge in the absurd school-boy emulation of who
can get up first.
The only right way to get through the ordeal is to be