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OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEH. 149
loway, and Mr. Perring; and we began to measure the
interior of the Great Pyramid.
Sih. — We continued the admeasurements. In the
evening, Mr. Perring and Mr. Galloway returned to Cairo
with Mr. Hill, who had arrived in the morning.
9th. — The work was resumed at the Second Pyra-
mid, probably in consequence of Colonel Campbell's
letter. Two German and two English travellers paid
us a visit. Several bones were found in the fosse of
Campbell's Tomb.
10/7;. — M. Caviglia went to Cairo to make arrange-
ments respecting the Arabs, who, the Sheiks had in-
formed him, would be required to work at a canal.
A quantity of bones were found upon one of the but-
tresses, and in other parts of the fosse at Campbell's
tomb. Whilst I was employed in the Great Pyramid, I
was informed that a sarcophagus had been discovered in
a grotto proceeding from the shaft, near the south-
western corner of the tomb.5 I immediately went to the
spot, and finding that M. Caviglia's servant (Giachino)
had entered it, I ordered him out, and forbade any person
to go down before M. Caviglia's return. The sarcophagus
was empty.
The Sheiks came to me in the course of the morning,
and offered to furnish two or three hundred additional
men, if I could obtain a protection for them from being
sent to the canal. I immediately accepted them, and
5 A plan of the tomb will be given.
loway, and Mr. Perring; and we began to measure the
interior of the Great Pyramid.
Sih. — We continued the admeasurements. In the
evening, Mr. Perring and Mr. Galloway returned to Cairo
with Mr. Hill, who had arrived in the morning.
9th. — The work was resumed at the Second Pyra-
mid, probably in consequence of Colonel Campbell's
letter. Two German and two English travellers paid
us a visit. Several bones were found in the fosse of
Campbell's Tomb.
10/7;. — M. Caviglia went to Cairo to make arrange-
ments respecting the Arabs, who, the Sheiks had in-
formed him, would be required to work at a canal.
A quantity of bones were found upon one of the but-
tresses, and in other parts of the fosse at Campbell's
tomb. Whilst I was employed in the Great Pyramid, I
was informed that a sarcophagus had been discovered in
a grotto proceeding from the shaft, near the south-
western corner of the tomb.5 I immediately went to the
spot, and finding that M. Caviglia's servant (Giachino)
had entered it, I ordered him out, and forbade any person
to go down before M. Caviglia's return. The sarcophagus
was empty.
The Sheiks came to me in the course of the morning,
and offered to furnish two or three hundred additional
men, if I could obtain a protection for them from being
sent to the canal. I immediately accepted them, and
5 A plan of the tomb will be given.