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OPERATIONS CARRIED OX AT GIZEII.
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accidentally arisen from the artificial channels having
been stopped up, and from the water having penetrated
between the strata of the rock.
In answer to the letter, which Mr. Piozan had sent by
an express into Upper Egypt, the Madyr informed him
that the people from Koum el Eswith, Cafr el Batran,
and Harronieh, were ordered to come to the pyramids,
but that the population of the other villages would be
wanted at the canal. This arrangement appeared suffi-
ciently explicit, but it was extremely difficult to find out
to what villages the people belonged. The Sheiks could
not be depended upon; and, from the fear of conscription,
for the army, or for compulsory labour at the factories,
many of the people had no settled habitations, but wan-
dered from place to place as opportunity offered. From
the fineness of the climate their wants were few, and no
ideas of comfort or of home interfered with their wander-
ing inclinations.
A small piece of brown stone, inscribed with part of
the cartouche, or legend of Suphis, was dug out of the
rubbish at the centre of the northern front of the Great
Pyramid. At first I imagined it was supposititious; upon
examination, however, it seemed to be genuine, but it did
not appear to have been used in the construction of the
building.3
This cartouche, together with another, is introduced
amongst the hieroglyphics, with which the interior of a
building to the westward of the Great Pyramid is covered.
It has been called the tomb of Trades; and that part of
the inscription, which relates to the cartouche, has been
3 The stone has been already described in vol. i., page 258.
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accidentally arisen from the artificial channels having
been stopped up, and from the water having penetrated
between the strata of the rock.
In answer to the letter, which Mr. Piozan had sent by
an express into Upper Egypt, the Madyr informed him
that the people from Koum el Eswith, Cafr el Batran,
and Harronieh, were ordered to come to the pyramids,
but that the population of the other villages would be
wanted at the canal. This arrangement appeared suffi-
ciently explicit, but it was extremely difficult to find out
to what villages the people belonged. The Sheiks could
not be depended upon; and, from the fear of conscription,
for the army, or for compulsory labour at the factories,
many of the people had no settled habitations, but wan-
dered from place to place as opportunity offered. From
the fineness of the climate their wants were few, and no
ideas of comfort or of home interfered with their wander-
ing inclinations.
A small piece of brown stone, inscribed with part of
the cartouche, or legend of Suphis, was dug out of the
rubbish at the centre of the northern front of the Great
Pyramid. At first I imagined it was supposititious; upon
examination, however, it seemed to be genuine, but it did
not appear to have been used in the construction of the
building.3
This cartouche, together with another, is introduced
amongst the hieroglyphics, with which the interior of a
building to the westward of the Great Pyramid is covered.
It has been called the tomb of Trades; and that part of
the inscription, which relates to the cartouche, has been
3 The stone has been already described in vol. i., page 258.