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PYRAMIDS AND PROGRESS.
the day I saw you last to look for you and tell you so." " It is quite true what she
says," said an elderly woman coming forward. " I am her mother. We had a good
man for her, but she would have no husband but you, sir." " But I am married,
and here are my wife and daughter.7' " No matter, marry me. I will be the lady's
slave, and I will follow her, and work for her, and never leave you ; only I can
never marry anyone but you, my gentleman." And then the poor girl went up to
my friend's wife and repeated her offer with many tears. But the lady, who could
speak her language, said, " My husband is a priest, and in our country the law
allows but one wife." They bade her good-bye, tenderly as possible, but the poor
lassie went away sorrowfully, and the post-boat started again on her voyage.
I have already alluded to the difficulties formerly thrown in the way of British
explorers by the French authorities in the Cairo Museum, who claimed, without any
reason or right, control over the whole antiquities of Egypt. The abuses of the last
few years, when Frenchmen were licensed to dig (and carry off what they found),
while honest English scientists were refused, caused Sir Wm. Garstin to interfere.
He is now president of a Committee of the Ministry of Public Works, who receive
and decide all applications to search for antiquities. This Committee has just
granted Dr. Pétrie permission to dig {for the Egypt Exploration Fund) at Abydos
and twenty-five miles round ! So subscribers to this admirable Society's fund
may soon expect a rich reward, and Egyptian studies a vast impetus.
Abydos was the cradle of a great dynasty, and there are, doubtless, many re-
mains of it, and also of the later rulers, yet to be discovered. Seti located his greatest
ac hi eve m ent
here, and it
the day I saw you last to look for you and tell you so." " It is quite true what she
says," said an elderly woman coming forward. " I am her mother. We had a good
man for her, but she would have no husband but you, sir." " But I am married,
and here are my wife and daughter.7' " No matter, marry me. I will be the lady's
slave, and I will follow her, and work for her, and never leave you ; only I can
never marry anyone but you, my gentleman." And then the poor girl went up to
my friend's wife and repeated her offer with many tears. But the lady, who could
speak her language, said, " My husband is a priest, and in our country the law
allows but one wife." They bade her good-bye, tenderly as possible, but the poor
lassie went away sorrowfully, and the post-boat started again on her voyage.
I have already alluded to the difficulties formerly thrown in the way of British
explorers by the French authorities in the Cairo Museum, who claimed, without any
reason or right, control over the whole antiquities of Egypt. The abuses of the last
few years, when Frenchmen were licensed to dig (and carry off what they found),
while honest English scientists were refused, caused Sir Wm. Garstin to interfere.
He is now president of a Committee of the Ministry of Public Works, who receive
and decide all applications to search for antiquities. This Committee has just
granted Dr. Pétrie permission to dig {for the Egypt Exploration Fund) at Abydos
and twenty-five miles round ! So subscribers to this admirable Society's fund
may soon expect a rich reward, and Egyptian studies a vast impetus.
Abydos was the cradle of a great dynasty, and there are, doubtless, many re-
mains of it, and also of the later rulers, yet to be discovered. Seti located his greatest
ac hi eve m ent
here, and it