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OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEII.
hieroglyphics were in several places covered with plaster ;
the stone, therefore, must have previously belonged to
some other building before the fragments were employed
as fillings in, in this. Some men were set to work in
the excavation across the horizontal passage in the Se-
cond Pyramid ; but the masonry was so insecure that
they were afraid to proceed. In the evening I went
round the works with Jack.
March 11th.
Reis, 7. Men, 152. Children, 126.
Great Pyramid.—Excavation of southern front.
- Excavation of northern front.
- Davison's Chamber.
- Queen's Chamber.
- Passage to Queen's Chamber.
- Large Stone in Great Passage.
Second Pyramid.—Lower Entrance.
Third Pyramid.—Interior.
Campbell's Tomb.
Fourth Pyramid.—Preparing to bore.
Bones, earthenware, and small pieces of leaf gold,
were brought out of Campbell's Tomb. One of the
fragments of earthenware was handed to a boy, who,
instead of placing it with the other things that had
been discovered, put it into his dress; I immediately
took it from him, and directed it to be preserved. In
the afternoon I went back to look for this fragment,
when it was missing. The sherd was positively good for
nothing, but I thought it my duty to insist on its being
restored; I therefore sent off all the people, and, in about
an hour, I ascertained that the boy, from whom it was
taken, had destroyed it in revenge. I directed that he
OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEII.
hieroglyphics were in several places covered with plaster ;
the stone, therefore, must have previously belonged to
some other building before the fragments were employed
as fillings in, in this. Some men were set to work in
the excavation across the horizontal passage in the Se-
cond Pyramid ; but the masonry was so insecure that
they were afraid to proceed. In the evening I went
round the works with Jack.
March 11th.
Reis, 7. Men, 152. Children, 126.
Great Pyramid.—Excavation of southern front.
- Excavation of northern front.
- Davison's Chamber.
- Queen's Chamber.
- Passage to Queen's Chamber.
- Large Stone in Great Passage.
Second Pyramid.—Lower Entrance.
Third Pyramid.—Interior.
Campbell's Tomb.
Fourth Pyramid.—Preparing to bore.
Bones, earthenware, and small pieces of leaf gold,
were brought out of Campbell's Tomb. One of the
fragments of earthenware was handed to a boy, who,
instead of placing it with the other things that had
been discovered, put it into his dress; I immediately
took it from him, and directed it to be preserved. In
the afternoon I went back to look for this fragment,
when it was missing. The sherd was positively good for
nothing, but I thought it my duty to insist on its being
restored; I therefore sent off all the people, and, in about
an hour, I ascertained that the boy, from whom it was
taken, had destroyed it in revenge. I directed that he