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OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEH.
themselves clean. They had generally deep scars near
the eyes, which they had lost; indeed, scarification, and
the application of a fetish, or charm, which consists
generally of a passage in the Koran written by a priest
upon a piece of parchment, and folded up in a triangular
shape, appear to be their only remedies. The ophthalmia,
that attacked the people at the Pyramids, was extremely
sudden and violent, and was attended with great inflam-
mation, and with severe pain at the temples.
April I6t7i. — Colonel Campbell embarked for Alex-
andria.
I was informed by Mr. Perring, that, in a letter he had
lately received, Mr. Galloway complained of not having
had an answer to an application, which he had some time
before made to me, respecting Mr. Caviglia, who was
anxious to obtain my permission to return to the Pyra-
mids. I immediately wrote to Mr. Galloway to apologize
for the error I had committed in writing to Mr. Sloane
(the vice-consul at Alexandria), and enclosed a copy of
my letter to that gentleman. — (See March 13th.)
April 11th.
Reis, 9. Men, 98. Children, 119.
The same works were repeated.
Mr. Raven, as usual, returned to the Pyramids by
daybreak. I settled various affairs at Cairo. Mr. Perring
sent his drawings of the quarry marks in Wellington's
Chamber. I returned to Gizeh in the evening.
OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEH.
themselves clean. They had generally deep scars near
the eyes, which they had lost; indeed, scarification, and
the application of a fetish, or charm, which consists
generally of a passage in the Koran written by a priest
upon a piece of parchment, and folded up in a triangular
shape, appear to be their only remedies. The ophthalmia,
that attacked the people at the Pyramids, was extremely
sudden and violent, and was attended with great inflam-
mation, and with severe pain at the temples.
April I6t7i. — Colonel Campbell embarked for Alex-
andria.
I was informed by Mr. Perring, that, in a letter he had
lately received, Mr. Galloway complained of not having
had an answer to an application, which he had some time
before made to me, respecting Mr. Caviglia, who was
anxious to obtain my permission to return to the Pyra-
mids. I immediately wrote to Mr. Galloway to apologize
for the error I had committed in writing to Mr. Sloane
(the vice-consul at Alexandria), and enclosed a copy of
my letter to that gentleman. — (See March 13th.)
April 11th.
Reis, 9. Men, 98. Children, 119.
The same works were repeated.
Mr. Raven, as usual, returned to the Pyramids by
daybreak. I settled various affairs at Cairo. Mr. Perring
sent his drawings of the quarry marks in Wellington's
Chamber. I returned to Gizeh in the evening.