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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.6551#0166
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OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEII.
merchant, and, probably on account of his wealth, had
been obliged by the Pacha to accept the government of
the province. He appeared extremely credulous, but was
very civil, and obliging, and contributed all he could to
my convenience. He remained for a considerable time
after supper, and a long conversation was carried on by
means of the janissary Selim. I then retired to the sofa,
but not to sleep, owing to the quantity of gnats, and of
vermin, with which the place abounded.
20/h. — I left the town early in the morning with
the Sheik of Shade-wee, by the way I had arrived, and
leaving at some distance to the left the mounds which
occupy the site of Antinoe, we proceeded through cul-
tivated plains, and groves of olive, and of fig-trees, to
some ruins, which are supposed to have belonged to an
antient pyramid. The inhabitants of the different vil-
lages were employed in threshing out their corn, under
the superintendence of the Sheiks, and of the Pacha's
officers, who take away two-thirds for their master, which
sufficiently accounts for the reluctance, with which the
fellahs work, particularly as they are at the same time
subject to the oppression of the Sheiks, and to the devast-
ations of the Bedouins, twenty thousand of whom were
said at that time to have taken up their quarters in the
province. The ruins in question may have formed part
of one, or of two monuments, as they consist of two
large masses perfectly unconnected, and at some distance
from each other, but neither the form, nor foundations
can he ascertained. The stones are large, well squared,
and firmly set in mortar, and the masonry much resem-
bles that of the pyramids at Gizeh. After having ex-
OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEII.
merchant, and, probably on account of his wealth, had
been obliged by the Pacha to accept the government of
the province. He appeared extremely credulous, but was
very civil, and obliging, and contributed all he could to
my convenience. He remained for a considerable time
after supper, and a long conversation was carried on by
means of the janissary Selim. I then retired to the sofa,
but not to sleep, owing to the quantity of gnats, and of
vermin, with which the place abounded.
20/h. — I left the town early in the morning with
the Sheik of Shade-wee, by the way I had arrived, and
leaving at some distance to the left the mounds which
occupy the site of Antinoe, we proceeded through cul-
tivated plains, and groves of olive, and of fig-trees, to
some ruins, which are supposed to have belonged to an
antient pyramid. The inhabitants of the different vil-
lages were employed in threshing out their corn, under
the superintendence of the Sheiks, and of the Pacha's
officers, who take away two-thirds for their master, which
sufficiently accounts for the reluctance, with which the
fellahs work, particularly as they are at the same time
subject to the oppression of the Sheiks, and to the devast-
ations of the Bedouins, twenty thousand of whom were
said at that time to have taken up their quarters in the
province. The ruins in question may have formed part
of one, or of two monuments, as they consist of two
large masses perfectly unconnected, and at some distance
from each other, but neither the form, nor foundations
can he ascertained. The stones are large, well squared,
and firmly set in mortar, and the masonry much resem-
bles that of the pyramids at Gizeh. After having ex-