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i. Tut; Pyramids or Gizeh.
CHAPTER I.
THE PYRAMIDS OF GIZF.II.
1881-2.
WHEN, in the end of 1 880, I first started for Egypt.
I had long been preparing for the expedition ; during
a couple of years before that measuring instruments,
theodolites, rope-ladders, and all the impedimenta for
scientific work, had been prepared and tested. To
start work under circumstances so different from those
of any European country, and where many customary
appliances were not to be obtained, required neces-
sarily much prearrangement and consideration;
though on the whole my subsequent experience has
been that of decreasing the baggage, and simplifying
one's requirements.
The first consideration on reaching Egypt was
where to be housed. In those days there was no
luxurious hotel close to the pyramids : if any one
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CHAPTER I.
THE PYRAMIDS OF GIZF.II.
1881-2.
WHEN, in the end of 1 880, I first started for Egypt.
I had long been preparing for the expedition ; during
a couple of years before that measuring instruments,
theodolites, rope-ladders, and all the impedimenta for
scientific work, had been prepared and tested. To
start work under circumstances so different from those
of any European country, and where many customary
appliances were not to be obtained, required neces-
sarily much prearrangement and consideration;
though on the whole my subsequent experience has
been that of decreasing the baggage, and simplifying
one's requirements.
The first consideration on reaching Egypt was
where to be housed. In those days there was no
luxurious hotel close to the pyramids : if any one
A