Howard-Vyse, Richard William Howard: Operations carried on at the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837: with an account of a voyage into upper Egypt, and Appendix (Band 1) (London, 1840)

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PREFACE.

they might interest, and, perhaps, assist future tra-
vellers in Egypt, but without any idea of compe-
tition with Mr. Lane's accurate account, or with
Sir J. Gardner Wilkinson's1 more extensive work,
— two books, with which every traveller in that
country should be supplied.

When, in consequence of Colonel Campbell's
letter, M. Caviglia withdrew from the Pyramids, I
was engaged in assisting Mr. Perring in his survey
of those monuments, and, although I had not, at
first, the slightest intention of remaining abroad, I
considered it my duty to await the completion of
the survey, and, at the same time, to pursue the
objects, for which the firmaun was obtained. The
discovery of the exterior mouth of the northern
air-channel in the Great Pyramid, and the hope of
arriving at the apartments, which were supposed
to exist in the Third, by the excavation begun in
its interior induced me to persevere; and, as is
often the case, one thing led on to another, until,
being fairly engaged in works of so much interest,
I was, of course, determined to carry them on to

1 Sir J. Gardner Wilkinson lias received the honour of
knighthood since the following pages were written.