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OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT G1ZEH.
63
sulate I found that a letter respecting this business had
been previously written at the dictation of Selim, the
janissary, and signed by the vice-consul, and that it was
on the point of being sent off. I immediately got posses-
sion of this document, which, as may be supposed, was
not much to the purpose. Affairs of real importance are,
no doubt, often transacted in a similar manner, and blame
thrown upon the Arab authorities which they do not
exactly deserve; at the same time, in many instances,
particularly where money is concerned, they are too ready
to take advantage of the casual or intentional mistakes of
an interpreter, even when they are perfectly aware, from
other circumstances, of the real state of the question.
July 23d.—Jack, and Osman the janissary, who had
been discharged, were paid off.
July 24tk.
Reis, 11. Men, 111. Children, 78.
Third Pyramid.—Interior.
- Clearing the pavement.
Sixth Pyramid.—Blasting stones in northern front.
I returned to the Pyramids with Mr. Andrews and
Mr. Hill.
Nothing further had been discovered at the Fourth
Pyramid. It is possible that an apartment to the east-
ward of the centre might have been originally intended,
but not executed. The entrance to the Sixth Pyramid
is in the rock, at some little distance from the base, and
six feet to the westward of the centre of the northern
front. It descended at an angle of thirty, and was full of
sand and stones.
63
sulate I found that a letter respecting this business had
been previously written at the dictation of Selim, the
janissary, and signed by the vice-consul, and that it was
on the point of being sent off. I immediately got posses-
sion of this document, which, as may be supposed, was
not much to the purpose. Affairs of real importance are,
no doubt, often transacted in a similar manner, and blame
thrown upon the Arab authorities which they do not
exactly deserve; at the same time, in many instances,
particularly where money is concerned, they are too ready
to take advantage of the casual or intentional mistakes of
an interpreter, even when they are perfectly aware, from
other circumstances, of the real state of the question.
July 23d.—Jack, and Osman the janissary, who had
been discharged, were paid off.
July 24tk.
Reis, 11. Men, 111. Children, 78.
Third Pyramid.—Interior.
- Clearing the pavement.
Sixth Pyramid.—Blasting stones in northern front.
I returned to the Pyramids with Mr. Andrews and
Mr. Hill.
Nothing further had been discovered at the Fourth
Pyramid. It is possible that an apartment to the east-
ward of the centre might have been originally intended,
but not executed. The entrance to the Sixth Pyramid
is in the rock, at some little distance from the base, and
six feet to the westward of the centre of the northern
front. It descended at an angle of thirty, and was full of
sand and stones.