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OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEII.
fourth the three figures were repeated, and many hiero-
glyphics inscribed, but they were in so bad a state of
preservation, that I could only make out one cartouche.
22d.—I went on shore at Derr. The town is clean,
and tolerably well built, and surrounded as usual by
groves of date-trees and cultivated grounds. The houses
were of clay, with flat roofs; that of the Catchief was
larger than the rest, and had rows of red and white
bricks round the doors and windows, and along the top.
I found him surrounded by a number of his attendants,
sitting on an earthen divan near an immense sycamore-
tree in the middle of the village. He was very tall, of a
swarthy complexion, and dressed in a dark-blue shirt, red
slippers, and turban, with a number of strings of beads and
fetichies around his neck. He received me very civilly,
and made me several presents consisting of sheep and
dates, of a nabout from Kostam, an iron hatchet from
Sennaar, and of a small stick curved at the end, and used
in riding camels, called an assar; it comes from Cordofan,
and is supposed to be described in the antient hierogly-
phics. I bought several mats, which are here manufac-
tured in considerable quantities. They cost about seven
piastres each, are well made, but when new have a most
disagreeable smell. I went to the house of a slave-dealer
to buy some courbashes. It was built of mud, about eight
or nine feet high, and stood in a court-yard, in which
were a few hovels, an earthen bed-place, and a mill for
grinding corn by means of a stone turned by a handle,
which was thrown round alternately by two. women who
sat opposite to each other on the ground. This must
be the kind of mill alluded to in the New Testament.
OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEII.
fourth the three figures were repeated, and many hiero-
glyphics inscribed, but they were in so bad a state of
preservation, that I could only make out one cartouche.
22d.—I went on shore at Derr. The town is clean,
and tolerably well built, and surrounded as usual by
groves of date-trees and cultivated grounds. The houses
were of clay, with flat roofs; that of the Catchief was
larger than the rest, and had rows of red and white
bricks round the doors and windows, and along the top.
I found him surrounded by a number of his attendants,
sitting on an earthen divan near an immense sycamore-
tree in the middle of the village. He was very tall, of a
swarthy complexion, and dressed in a dark-blue shirt, red
slippers, and turban, with a number of strings of beads and
fetichies around his neck. He received me very civilly,
and made me several presents consisting of sheep and
dates, of a nabout from Kostam, an iron hatchet from
Sennaar, and of a small stick curved at the end, and used
in riding camels, called an assar; it comes from Cordofan,
and is supposed to be described in the antient hierogly-
phics. I bought several mats, which are here manufac-
tured in considerable quantities. They cost about seven
piastres each, are well made, but when new have a most
disagreeable smell. I went to the house of a slave-dealer
to buy some courbashes. It was built of mud, about eight
or nine feet high, and stood in a court-yard, in which
were a few hovels, an earthen bed-place, and a mill for
grinding corn by means of a stone turned by a handle,
which was thrown round alternately by two. women who
sat opposite to each other on the ground. This must
be the kind of mill alluded to in the New Testament.