Howard-Vyse, Richard William Howard: Operations carried on at the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837: with an account of a voyage into upper Egypt, and Appendix (Band 1) (London, 1840)

OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEH.

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I returned to the pyramids with Mr. Brettel and Sir
Robert Arbuthnot, and found every thing in good order
under Mr. Raven's superintendence.

The Shereef of Mecca had encamped on the arable
land near the northern dyke.

May 19th.

Reis, 9. Men, 104. Children, 96.

The same works were repeated.

Mr. Fitzgerald arrived before breakfast. The Shereef
of Mecca having called in the morning, I returned his
visit, but I did not see him, as he was at prayers. I
received a letter from Mr. Piozan, to say that the Madyr
would dine with me on the following Sunday.

We examined the northern Air-channel; and Sir Ro-
bert Arbuthnot, Mr. Brettel, Mr. Raven, and myself, com-
pared Mr. Hill's drawings with the quarry-marks in the
Great Pyramid; and we afterwards signed an attestation
of their accuracy. The two former gentlemen and Mr.
Fitzgerald returned at night to Cairo.

In the evening, the people belonging to the Shereef of
Mecca exercised their horses with the jereed, in the sandy
plain below the tents ; several of them were well bred,
and very clever, and the men were picturesquely dressed
with Wahabee handkerchiefs on their heads, &c, and
together with their horses, made a capital show. Their
exploits with the jereed were not, however, very excellent,
and the deep sand took away from the speed of their
horses.