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OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEII.
July 19th.
Reis, 11. Men, 140. Children, 151.
The same works were repeated.
The Sheik of Haroneah came in the morning, and
engaged to send a number of men — a promise he had
often made before, apparently without the smallest in-
tention of fulfilling it. As these people must have been
sensible that they were never believed, and could not,
therefore, have derived any advantage from falsehood,
their conduct could only proceed from " a natural, though
corrupt, love of the lie itself" (as Lord Bacon expresses
it); perhaps not uncommon in any part of the world, but
extremely prevalent in the East.
Mr. Hill brought me a letter from Colonel Campbell,
containing the melancholy account of the late King's
death.
July 20th.
Reis, 11. Men, 130. Children, 136.
Third Pyramid.—Interior.
- Clearing the Pavement.
Fourth Pyramid.—Blasting for another entrance.
Sixth Pyramid.—Blasting stones in the northern front.
Lieutenant Warden, and two gentlemen who were on
their way to India, came in the morning to see the Pyra-
mids, and returned to Cairo at night. Mr. Waghorn was
so good as to send a collection of newspapers, and an
offer of Selim's services, if I intended to return soon to
Alexandria. I wrote to express my acknowledgments,
and to request that the janissary might be allowed to
OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEII.
July 19th.
Reis, 11. Men, 140. Children, 151.
The same works were repeated.
The Sheik of Haroneah came in the morning, and
engaged to send a number of men — a promise he had
often made before, apparently without the smallest in-
tention of fulfilling it. As these people must have been
sensible that they were never believed, and could not,
therefore, have derived any advantage from falsehood,
their conduct could only proceed from " a natural, though
corrupt, love of the lie itself" (as Lord Bacon expresses
it); perhaps not uncommon in any part of the world, but
extremely prevalent in the East.
Mr. Hill brought me a letter from Colonel Campbell,
containing the melancholy account of the late King's
death.
July 20th.
Reis, 11. Men, 130. Children, 136.
Third Pyramid.—Interior.
- Clearing the Pavement.
Fourth Pyramid.—Blasting for another entrance.
Sixth Pyramid.—Blasting stones in the northern front.
Lieutenant Warden, and two gentlemen who were on
their way to India, came in the morning to see the Pyra-
mids, and returned to Cairo at night. Mr. Waghorn was
so good as to send a collection of newspapers, and an
offer of Selim's services, if I intended to return soon to
Alexandria. I wrote to express my acknowledgments,
and to request that the janissary might be allowed to