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OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEII.
was anxious to enter the Third Pyramid. I had re-
peatedly sent the janissaries to collect people from the
different villages; and I now despatched Ibrahim (the
Copt) to inform the Sheiks once for all, that unless they
sent more men, they would not receive any bakshish.
July loth.
Reis, 11. Men, 158. Children, 195.
The same works were repeated.
The Sheik of Koum el Eswith came to arrange about
additional people.
A small piece of painted wood and an English patent
screw were found amongst the rubbish at the Third
Pyramid ; but as it appeared from its shape that the
latter must have been made within the last eight years,
they were probably placed there by the Arabs.
I had sent my servant to Cairo, with the intention of
going there myself in the evening; but whilst I was
paying the men, a lad was brought in on a man's
shoulders, apparently half dead ; his white cap and fore-
head were matted with blood and sand ; and he was said
to have fallen down the whole depth of the shaft in the
Third Pyramid. I ordered them to carry him up to the
tents, and requested Mr. Hill to attend to him till I had
paid off the people. Mr. Hill came directly to inform me
that he was most severely hurt, and must be sent into
Cairo without loss of time. As soon as the people were
gone, I went up myself, and found the boy lying on an
earthen bank, to all appearance, senseless, and an Arab
(who called himself his uncle) sitting near him to keep off
the flies. His pulse and breathing were regular, and his
OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEII.
was anxious to enter the Third Pyramid. I had re-
peatedly sent the janissaries to collect people from the
different villages; and I now despatched Ibrahim (the
Copt) to inform the Sheiks once for all, that unless they
sent more men, they would not receive any bakshish.
July loth.
Reis, 11. Men, 158. Children, 195.
The same works were repeated.
The Sheik of Koum el Eswith came to arrange about
additional people.
A small piece of painted wood and an English patent
screw were found amongst the rubbish at the Third
Pyramid ; but as it appeared from its shape that the
latter must have been made within the last eight years,
they were probably placed there by the Arabs.
I had sent my servant to Cairo, with the intention of
going there myself in the evening; but whilst I was
paying the men, a lad was brought in on a man's
shoulders, apparently half dead ; his white cap and fore-
head were matted with blood and sand ; and he was said
to have fallen down the whole depth of the shaft in the
Third Pyramid. I ordered them to carry him up to the
tents, and requested Mr. Hill to attend to him till I had
paid off the people. Mr. Hill came directly to inform me
that he was most severely hurt, and must be sent into
Cairo without loss of time. As soon as the people were
gone, I went up myself, and found the boy lying on an
earthen bank, to all appearance, senseless, and an Arab
(who called himself his uncle) sitting near him to keep off
the flies. His pulse and breathing were regular, and his