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THE PYRAMIDS.
FIRST TIME
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with a heavy thud. The tram rather as the soldiers of Israel station is surrounded by dragemans must, have felt parading round the OLD FRIENDS SEEN FOR THE countless hordes, who with walls of Jericho.
camels and donkeys or their own unaided eloquence to recommend them, swarm around, one like bar Mest decidedly the best way to gain hunters around a remnant see the Pyramids is to go by tram,counter.
As we were there a motor arrived perferably a tram with seats run. ning Parallet to the pavement. It with a amall parts which in an in- you are so fortunato as to find oneant was heleaguered, by no less of these, to get the meat thrill out than twenty of them Forcing our
ing a ton
Comparative Heights to cheer ourselves up we start res posting a few statistics and trying to remember some of those. diagrams in which one is shown the comparative, heights of the Pyramids and St. Paul's Cathedral or the Nelson Colum How do they go? Height 481 feet, length of your trip be careful to sit on way through their ranks and pass 775 feet 2.800.000 plocks of stone garden and a photo-averaging 2% tons in wolght. the right-hand side..
I could not call it the most comgrapher's place (Badouin costumes Then we look up to see how high of getting there, can be supplied to ladies and 481 feet really is, and at once for for it is a long journey, taking gentlemen, you will be glad to get all the statistics. It is as if. about an hour. Neither does the know) and a shop to buy cards,standing at the foot of some, liff one might and looking up. all the laws of major portion of the route offer and a garage (really uny special points of interest. Just as well be going onto Brighton perspective but suddenly, gone There is one outstanding sight Pier), we came, harassed by which you would ace, andtone which gulites, to a long sloping road down was reserved for me alone. Shall which motorists were scorching. When this also had been surmount- ed we had arrived.
fortable mosNS
we take that first?
At first, I was disappointed," not.
by the Pyramids themselves, but by
It is a so érade and prosaic that for a moment cne's heart sinks, but only for a moment, for when ene gets beyond that and
wrong.
The colour is yellow, like cliffs; the surface is uneven, Bike cliffa; we are walking on sand as if on (the beach; there is even at the top a post which might be the flag-
staff of a const-guardi station, “but. instead of the all having a top running parallel to the ground). It tapers to a blunt paint. The in- pression of being at the seaside in further heightened by the masses of rock which He all about the base, detribum from the ruing of the monument which took 20,000 men twenty years to build and by the excavations to our right which
On our right the dun axava- look like rocks at low tide...
We were going along the canal bordered with a row of wonderful trees which Abd-el-Hamid tells me
their surroundings. There is a re banyan trees. The trunks are almost hidden beneath a defenco Randy piece of ground with bite of of boughs or shoots which have parar and orange peal blowing grown downward to the ground in about on it, and motor care parked such numbers that they reserable and policemen, and small boys, a cave of stalnetites or some cor-kicking a football about, and trip pers, and light railway for the pressed Gothic cathédrak.
excavatiore which are constantly these Y Through an avenue of
going on. suddenly saw spread out to dry along the vivid green farther bark ef the canal yards and yards of washing of a most wonderful mauve, reminding me of the Mitcham lavender beds. Bo charm-comes to the Pyramids themselveslony, on our left the monstrous wat with the sight that all is well again. The photographuthing a wonderful golden honey hardly noticed the goal of our trip on which we have all been brought colour in the sun, ahead of us the in the distance; besides. I had are old friends, like Bottom the matter but still impressive mass falready seen a similar view of the up from infancy ineline us to look of the second Pyramid of Khaira. top glittering dely in the glare Pyramids the previous night un-upon them as old friends, but they purple in the shadow, its limestone weaver, most strangely translated. er much better conditions when
Instead of the triangle aticking of the sun as if growing weary they were shrouded in the tawny
up behind a man on a praying rug alter its 4000 years of scorching.. lonk of the sundet.
and a samel to which we are used. there is a mighty chi pdinting to Some distance? away from the
corner of the elbeds and the intense sky, presant
the Great while thay ante run hither and Pyramid is a small space cleared thither about its buse. A few feet of sand showing where the sides On: from the ground a crowd of in-used, originally to come to Faizulficant specks turns out to be a this side away from the main en- We party of tourists going to visit trance is was very quiet. the inside; the official entrance, started climbing up the side, but which completely dwarfs them, as it was very hot work and not spreads a great triangle fifty feet very good going (the blocks of above their heads. We turn sitestone are about three feet six inches and begins walk round, feeling high, not in theory a difficult height.
Another Redeeming Featurs, The other redeeming feature of the journey was the crossing the Abbas 1 bridge. As a bridge, Catro car show better efforts, but does not see the Nile wandering between an expanse of muth flats like the Laire at
from them une
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The gray waters of the river, the white sails of the feluccas, the gray-and-white clouds,
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Tischped from a painting By Shaley, admiring themselves in the brown mud all made a picture not easily to be forgotten. But although it was very nice, in its way, Abbas bridge was not what we had met at such an early hour to see, and [our response to its meaner beauties was not. as wathosinatie as it might have been onda more, ordinary occasion.
It was perhaps twenty minutes later, and I was pensively contem- plating the depressing, flatness which is the Nile valley and the Prayish yellow sand hills standing guard over the desert, mottled with purple shadows from passing clouds, when I was aroused by that general movement which in a public conveyance denotes arrival| at the terminus.
A
Quite by chance I looked out of the left-hand window, and was imply rewarded for the d'uliness and the length of our fourney. I saw "bounding the bright clover green of the Mena golf linka eliff of sand, and on top of that another cliff of stone towering: up into the sky and entirely dwarfing a awarm of minute human beinga promenáding about its base. That is why recommend the right side of the tram
Keep Your Eyes Shut. After that. If I had been fore- warned, I should have shut my eyes. tight and kept a firm clutch of Abd-el-Hamid's hand; and that what I beseech you to do when you go, for the descent from the tram brings one back again to earth
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Miss Stella Mahlstedt, the wife of wralthy New York manufacturer, vehemently denied her husband's accusation in a cult for separation that "she has been drunk on the dance- foor of every important hotel in New York." She declared she never tasted Liquor until her husband asked her to..
Period for Meditation.
but in practive and in large quanti ties a rathon tiring one, we stop- bed about twenty feet up. At down and gave ourstiràs up to medita-
tion.
What Abd-él-Hamid thought about I don't know. I thought of all sorts of things: of the complex structure of temples and cause- ways which used to spread its net about the base of the Pyramid, itself only a detail of a grit and proud ensemble of the smaller efforts of the court noblemen "at" sur feet, and of the captive Crusaders who were forced to pull them down to provide material for the new citadel of Saladin; of the desire for gold of Sultan Ab Ma'acun, who, hoping to And some in the Pyramids, pulled off their casing.
I was awakened from my reverie Some bays
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by piercing screams. from a government school spending their time going for rides on the gorgeously caparisoned camela which take the base of donkeys at this resort, and their enjoyment, unlike mine, was quits unaffected by the thought of the 20,000 man tolling under their, overseers at the bidding of King Cheops, who all unknowing, worked at one of the seven wonders of the world-M. J. in "Christian: Science, Monitor."
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