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APPENDIX.
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to them, and say, " Abou Chawl, we have finished our visit to
thee."2
The Pyramids are said to have been covered with silk, and
to have had the before-mentioned inscription—"We have covered
them with silk, let others cover them with mats," &c.
The author then quotes Zamakhshari, and says that the stones
were brought from a place four hundred farsangs from Gizeh.3
KITAB ALBULDAN.
MS. 7496, in the British Museum (The Book of Cities,")
Contains the following account. There are three Pyramids, two
of which are four hundred cubits high, and as many square.
They are built with blocks of marble and of granite, ten cubits
square; and the joints between the stones can scarcely be seen.
Every block is engraved with Musnad-Haniaryaritic-characters,
describing charms and talismans, and various branches of science.
It was reported, that one of the caliphs, having read the inscrip-
tion, " I have built," &c, determined to take them down, but
was obliged to desist on account of the expense.
3 Colonel Chesney discovered many Pyramids in Syria, to which pilgrimages
were performed. Unkowski also mentions in Mtiller's " Sammlung Russicher
Gescliiclite erstesStiick," p. 144, that he witnessed the celebration of the new year by
the Lamas of the Calmucs in the following manner. A tent of Chinese cloth was
pitched in an open space, marked out with red lines, to which the priest came in
procession from the westward, with his attendants, amongst whom six manyis (young
priests) carried sacred standards, each of them being supported by persons in red
garments bearing a model of a pyramid and two large trumpets; three men followed
witli smaller trumpets; and then fifty others in yellow dresses preceded with drums
and cymbals the rest of the priests, who were guarded by armed Calmucs. The
procession moved round the tent, and then assembled in the space before it, where
the models of the Pyramids were placed, which the priest worshipped by pro-
strating himself three times on the ground.—Dr. Sprenger.
3 This MS. has been alluded to in p. 328.
361
to them, and say, " Abou Chawl, we have finished our visit to
thee."2
The Pyramids are said to have been covered with silk, and
to have had the before-mentioned inscription—"We have covered
them with silk, let others cover them with mats," &c.
The author then quotes Zamakhshari, and says that the stones
were brought from a place four hundred farsangs from Gizeh.3
KITAB ALBULDAN.
MS. 7496, in the British Museum (The Book of Cities,")
Contains the following account. There are three Pyramids, two
of which are four hundred cubits high, and as many square.
They are built with blocks of marble and of granite, ten cubits
square; and the joints between the stones can scarcely be seen.
Every block is engraved with Musnad-Haniaryaritic-characters,
describing charms and talismans, and various branches of science.
It was reported, that one of the caliphs, having read the inscrip-
tion, " I have built," &c, determined to take them down, but
was obliged to desist on account of the expense.
3 Colonel Chesney discovered many Pyramids in Syria, to which pilgrimages
were performed. Unkowski also mentions in Mtiller's " Sammlung Russicher
Gescliiclite erstesStiick," p. 144, that he witnessed the celebration of the new year by
the Lamas of the Calmucs in the following manner. A tent of Chinese cloth was
pitched in an open space, marked out with red lines, to which the priest came in
procession from the westward, with his attendants, amongst whom six manyis (young
priests) carried sacred standards, each of them being supported by persons in red
garments bearing a model of a pyramid and two large trumpets; three men followed
witli smaller trumpets; and then fifty others in yellow dresses preceded with drums
and cymbals the rest of the priests, who were guarded by armed Calmucs. The
procession moved round the tent, and then assembled in the space before it, where
the models of the Pyramids were placed, which the priest worshipped by pro-
strating himself three times on the ground.—Dr. Sprenger.
3 This MS. has been alluded to in p. 328.