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44 t TRAVELS IN UPPER
companions, who was placed as a sentinel, gave us
notice of the approach of a gang of robbers. We
had only time to escape to the boat, which was im-
mediately pushed off shore, and we got clear, with
only the menaces and bullying of those barbarians.
• You observe also, on each side of the gate, holes
cut for the hinges which sustained the folding-
doors. The country people say that these doors
are at Cairo, and that they were transported thither
by a devil. Paul Luras saw them there covered
with plates of iron, and serving to close up an arch
which is near the palace of the grand provost*,
witho'it dcibt the Ouali, the officer who at Cairo
is intrusted with the affairs of the police. A con-
siderable number ot pillars were still standing at
the other extremity of the city of Antinoe, to-
wards the mountains. All the remainder presents
nothing but a confused mass of pieces of architec-
ture uroken and overthrown.
On the opposite side of the mountain, which
terminates, towards the west, the ancient enclo-
sure of Antinoe, you distinguish a considerable
number of openings dug in the rock. These ca-
verns were undoubtedly places of sepulture, the ca-
tacomhs. There are places such as these all over
Thebai's, principally in the environs of great cities,
* Nouvclle Relation d'Egypte, page 384.
along
companions, who was placed as a sentinel, gave us
notice of the approach of a gang of robbers. We
had only time to escape to the boat, which was im-
mediately pushed off shore, and we got clear, with
only the menaces and bullying of those barbarians.
• You observe also, on each side of the gate, holes
cut for the hinges which sustained the folding-
doors. The country people say that these doors
are at Cairo, and that they were transported thither
by a devil. Paul Luras saw them there covered
with plates of iron, and serving to close up an arch
which is near the palace of the grand provost*,
witho'it dcibt the Ouali, the officer who at Cairo
is intrusted with the affairs of the police. A con-
siderable number ot pillars were still standing at
the other extremity of the city of Antinoe, to-
wards the mountains. All the remainder presents
nothing but a confused mass of pieces of architec-
ture uroken and overthrown.
On the opposite side of the mountain, which
terminates, towards the west, the ancient enclo-
sure of Antinoe, you distinguish a considerable
number of openings dug in the rock. These ca-
verns were undoubtedly places of sepulture, the ca-
tacomhs. There are places such as these all over
Thebai's, principally in the environs of great cities,
* Nouvclle Relation d'Egypte, page 384.
along