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120 OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEH.
hieroglyphics were in question. They both promised
to give orders accordingly, but most probably with as
little intention of keeping their word as tbe Catchief of
Karnac.
The Governor sent a janissary with me to the factory,
which was a large establishment. Some of the rooms con-
tained two hundred looms, but many of them were not at
work. The labour was as usual forced; and a man was
confined in irons in the court-yard for having attempted
to escape. I passed through the bazars, which were very
crowded, and also well supplied, to a school, that con-
tained about one hundred boys ; they looked healthy, and
comparatively clean ; and were seated on the ground in
circles of ten or twelve together round small tables pre-
paratory to supper, which consisted of abundance of good
Arab bread, and of soup. The children are taken by
force to this school, (possibly the only method by which
education can be at present carried on), and are not
allowed to go out excepting on Fridays, when they walk
through the town. They are taught to read, and to write,
and are ultimately sent to the academies at Tourah, or at
Boulac. The plague raged violently at Minyeh in 1837.
11th. — I went on shore at Dewadee, a village on the
eastern bank, and walked across the cultivated ground
to a number of brick walls, and foundations at the foot
of the hills, which might have been supposed to have
been those of houses, had they not contained sepulchral
shafts, and an immense quantity of bones, which are con-
tinually dug up by the Arabs, whenever they take away
the earth as dressing for the cultivated land. A boundary
wall had enclosed these remains, and at the entrance of
hieroglyphics were in question. They both promised
to give orders accordingly, but most probably with as
little intention of keeping their word as tbe Catchief of
Karnac.
The Governor sent a janissary with me to the factory,
which was a large establishment. Some of the rooms con-
tained two hundred looms, but many of them were not at
work. The labour was as usual forced; and a man was
confined in irons in the court-yard for having attempted
to escape. I passed through the bazars, which were very
crowded, and also well supplied, to a school, that con-
tained about one hundred boys ; they looked healthy, and
comparatively clean ; and were seated on the ground in
circles of ten or twelve together round small tables pre-
paratory to supper, which consisted of abundance of good
Arab bread, and of soup. The children are taken by
force to this school, (possibly the only method by which
education can be at present carried on), and are not
allowed to go out excepting on Fridays, when they walk
through the town. They are taught to read, and to write,
and are ultimately sent to the academies at Tourah, or at
Boulac. The plague raged violently at Minyeh in 1837.
11th. — I went on shore at Dewadee, a village on the
eastern bank, and walked across the cultivated ground
to a number of brick walls, and foundations at the foot
of the hills, which might have been supposed to have
been those of houses, had they not contained sepulchral
shafts, and an immense quantity of bones, which are con-
tinually dug up by the Arabs, whenever they take away
the earth as dressing for the cultivated land. A boundary
wall had enclosed these remains, and at the entrance of