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TURKEY’ (Nominally 1.
! jng toward the morning light and
I the river of life. One who sees
its immobile taco will ne\er fo -
cet it. Carved out of the solid
rock and added to where neces
sary to h'.l up the contoui, the
Sphinx lies largely imbedded in
the sand save at front and rear,
its length of body 150 feet, length
of paws 50 feet, length of head 3°
(35). EGYPT: In Cairo, over thej feet, width of face 14 feet, width
Nile, at the Pyramids and
night, when the sun-god has gone
to the underworld, ami is making
his journe\ tl rough its twelve
stages. As one stands 1 'trie this
god of rising sun, this uptn-eyetj
prophet i.f the ilovn, amt ror.ieift-
hgrs its mute witness ott e un
clouded morning toi 11 e..•.y tour
thousand years, am! sees its calm,
perpetual ga.:v\ still m expectation
ot another sunt iso and yet another,
he makes for himself a new meas
ure of eternity.”
Excavations have revealed a
kind of protected temple between
the massive forepaws, reached by
ascending steps, and having me
morial tablets to Phothmes IV
and Ramses II, besides a car
touche ot Kafra on the broken
part of a granite tablet. The
desert sands encroach greatly on
this monument, and it has been
no. little mu'ilated by human
hands; parts ot the representation
of th« linen head covering and of
the emblem of royalty on the tore-
head and colouring traces (but
not of the beard) being now pre
served in tlie British Museum in
London. Its age we cannot de-
•m
mutilated red granite sarcophagus
7 1-2 feet by 3 feet, 3 inches by 3
feet, 4 Irenes. Above this chain
bei are live other small ones, for
reasons unknown is vet, unless it
be for th;. sepulture of other mem-
will
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The size of to.
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its height 011 rim
at present red 11:
and tiie length 1
lamily b'or we
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each s' le 755
feet, its solid contents 85 000,00a
cubic feet, area of original Ixsebj,-
444 squ ire yards (over 13 acres >
and r iei il incline 51 deg., 50 min.
Climb to the top of the pyramid
and walk the distance of a side and
you’ll think, as we do, that il is
quite a tremendous pi’o. Any one
with good lung p over and of medi
um build can ascend outside and
inside, but we would not advise
any lady to undertake the inner
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Sphinx, on the Lybian
Desert.
In Cairo one is in a city of
teet. width oi luce 14 inci.* "iv.un c * . . , c
of mouth 7 and a half feet, heigftt fine; suffice it to say ’us very an- climb; it is bad enough for a man
of ear 4 and a half feet, while cient and lonely, imposing and im- to have two or three Arabs pulling
pressive to the beholder.
Close by (southeast of) the
Sphinx we nro shown what is
called now "The Temple o( the
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I from crown to base 7 1 ’ feet. ()nce
j it stood for MystCiy; nowit has
no secret save for the ignorant.
Mrny years ago a distinguished
nd on
gs. No
and pushing, one behiiu
either side of arms and I.
weakling or heavy weight should go
up at all. On the outside the
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about 570.oco inhabitants ( 35.OOO ! American artist (Mr. \ odder)
of whom are Europeans), the ! painted a very lovely picture ca”
Sphinx,",constructed ot red gran- height of the stones to he clam-
i e and alabaster, the interior of i beretl over iue steps varies Irom 3
oi whom are Europeans), cne painted a very lovtiy pumc ‘ Q mrlvm, huv m Arabat
largest in Africa, made pictures-1 e d “The Secret of the Sphinx, , which has been excavated, allow-: 5 • > ‘ ’ • 1
qua as a military centre by the ! which the talented Amelia H lid-; mg entrance but requiring m some 1 each elbow o. nanc and one at the
1 y - English sol .| wauls (in her book “A Thousand j parts lighted candles. It is a fine back to lift and uplift, a great as-
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have an entirely new process, on which pntents arc pend-
>bv wo cun rofunc old Brass Column and Head Ruins, 4 pt.
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varied uniforms of l
dicity and Egyptian cavalry, Arab j Miies Up the Nile
thm de-| example of exactness of ancient
lancers and Soudanese infantry.
Its Arab name is Masr-el-Kahira,
commonly shortened by the peo
ple into Masr, and is located on
the east bank of the Nile, about
80 miles west of Suez, and 12
miles above the delta’s apex.
It seemed fitting that the morn
ing of our first day in Cairo after mystery lying 'far back
early breakfast we should take past. He has, perhaps
carriages and drive by the noted
Egyptian Museum to and across
the great Nile Bridge, called the
Kasr eh-Nil
stone lion
scribes: “In the picture we see a
brown, half-naked, toil worn fel
lah laying his ear to the stone
lips of a colossal sphinx, buried to
the neck in the sand. Some in
stinct of the old Egyptian blood
tells him that the creature is god
like. He is conscious of a great
the
a dim,
contused notion that the Big
Head knows it all, whatever it
may be. He has never heard ot
! construction, its splendid walls of
immense stones being so skillful
ly cut out and put together as
require no cement, not even a p
or hair being insertable between
its joints. A causeway connects
it with the temple of the Second
Pyramid. There are many tombs
ot interest in the vicinity also,
some of which we visit.
Aftoi making a wide detour,and
getting very hot and dusty, we
come back to the Great Pyramid
ot Cheops. With, a small party
with its majestic j the morning-song of Monition; but ,,, . .. ,—
proaches at either'he fancies, somehow, that those .the W fiter climbed to the opening
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sistance or nuisance, according as
one goes slowly or rapidly and
governs or submits readily to his
would he upheavers or persecu
tors for bakhshish. Pay when you
get through is the best and the'
most for your money. It cost the
author #i 25 in bakshish atone, but
he had the worth of his money in-,
side and outside and upside, every
way. The view from the < approx
imately) 3^ feet square space at
the summit is a never-to-bc forgot- .
ten one of the silvery Nile, in its j
setting of emerald, of the yellow
anti brownish desert exr.anae, of
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might speak if qu:
i tinned. Fellah and sphinx are
j alone together in tne desert. It
side and end (with draw bridge j closed
section, for the passage of boats
with tall sails, called dahabiyahs),
and the south end of the Gezira,: is night and the stars are shining,
and sti I another bridge over the! Has he chosen the right lioui 5
other arm of the river, and along What does he seek to know?
a highly eLvalei a: d 1 e utiful I What does he hope to hear? lhe.
avenue (above tne overflow level; picture tells its own tale; or rather
and surrounding swampy region)., it tells as much of its own tale as
lined on either s ; de with lebbek : the artist choosers.”
and acacia trees, for six miles on a| In striking contrast with the
stretch, until we come in sight of j foregoing is the flippant and
the Oizsh Pyramids just beyond equally untrue view presented in
the edge of the Great Lybian Des- j James Whitcomb Riley’s little
ram ids and Sphinx, and ot Cairo,
"the greatest winter resort in the
world.” The Great Pyramid is
jymg TO a ^ — / IV1U31 ui mum aic c/i mum.,
get along | “ l * ie evon one-thousand-billionth , | ater one8 ar e of crude brick,
. n:irt of the whole eartll-ball of 1: or.,1
part
land
of the wh
and sea;”
earth-ball
Miracle
into the pyramid, about 45 feet
from the ground on tire northward
side. Here the Arab guides are
most clamorous and annoying to a
stranger, yet one cannot
utterly wiihout their assistance
either inside or outside. But it is ,,
good and wise policy not to givej^e, as Dr. J A. Se.ss calls it
any too much bakhshish before K Ha. «9-i9 20; Job 38:17. etc,)
they have done all vou desire 0 fj bui lt6oo years before Moses be-
them. We thought we were get^;K»n to write the l^ntateuch, and
ting out of the heat into the cool “ the vastest a,ld h, « hcst st,,,ie
when we got to the entrance, but j building ever erected by human
or fifty miles from the Eayyunion 1
the south to Aba Roash in the
expanse, of nor th ( the building of a pyramid
the adjacent second and third py beginning immediately a kintc com-
Cewltim. mm,I mI ( uirn .
mcnced to rule, at death his em
balmed body being placed in them.
Most of them are of stone, but
with
Not only
there this fine
rhyme:
“t know ali about the Sphinx:
avenue over which to drive thither 11 know even what she thinks,
from Cairo, but one can take
trolley car and ride the same route.
Staring with her stony eyes
Up forever at the skies,
b'or last night f dreamed that she
limestone passages and chambers,
secret tomb chamber, and the Py
ramid closed up to everyone.
The most notable ones besides
the Gizeh group are the eleven at
1 Sakkara, five at Abousir, five at
1 Dahshur. The Sakkara group is
I about twenty miles above Cairo
and across the Nile, reach-d part
ly by steamer or rail as far as Bed-
j rash in, thence traveling the bal-
lance of the way by donkey, a very
1 [juiuiui y j popular, but hot ride for tourists.
; less remarkable and elaborate than . ,
I hands."
Herodotus gathered
Egyptians themselves
from
that
the
ten
just think of.it! On the way we ; Told llie a q t he mystery
Why, for aeons mute she sat —
pass heavily-laden camels and
donkeys fresh from or on the road j She was just, cur, out for that
to the desert, some with a curious-
look r.g three-cornered pouch on
either side filled with fresh forage . S ji en t and look mysterious.
j pretty soon we found the exercise
together with the temperature
1(79 degrees) within and our heat- —
ed guides sufficient to bring 0 n ■ y ea r s were s P ent " ln budding pre
j the perspiration with a rush. ! P^atory works, which are hardly
A word now as to what we
! found within the Pyramid, which : *he pyramid itself, and that every-
J is built of nummulitic limestone | thing was organized on an im-
I from the quarries of Tura and j‘^nse scale, keeping 100,000 men
The Sphinx is „l n r than many, j Masara beyond the river. Wc go continually at work relaying (hem
if it does nothing else than keep in tty a passageway 3 feet ,, tn. every three month,-everything
It is . ches high and 3 feet 5 inches wide i arguing one continuous and tore
euner s:uc mint 1-^^“ ‘“'“a" i suent anu juuh. luyaiuivua, u j j- . , r-irrietl
or stone or sand or bearing lum-1 a m j s t a ke to regard it as either be- and descend at an angle of 26.41 a ' , t ’ , ..
'ber gr other things needful in : ing a feminine figure or having a j degrees and more or less slick un- j 1 roug r< ’ r1 ' JL S in,ur 'k .J
building or moving or teeding. we ll-guarded secret. Archaeology j deifoot for about 125 feet, then we umao s reng n am • •
..... a„-n rnmnmDr:, ^ «rpnH fur ran feet a vcrv slio- and ropes, movable sands, com-
to account for th
For you had as well remember j b as revealed its masculinity and, ascend for 129 feet a very s!ip-
that, aside from what carriage of ( mean ing, for, as Dr. Wm. E. Bar-j pery and difficult passage to the : DlIlL " ” ,l -“
goods the trams and boats do in; ton has finely said (in “the Old entrance to the great hall, where ,are sufficient
the towns and cities, the carrying ; World in the New Century"): ; three passages join, laking the i pHc'ng an 1 mg 0 s >
of farm products and luggage of j .(The popular error concerning the j first one, stooping all the way, we . Iui aru cnaS31ve Inab °n r - V
. 1 i *-U A . 1? r* . . r*. i_ i I « o h r\riT/.r, tcJ t\ i rf*rt inn fnr T 27 To t he SOUth Of the 11
all
:arm piuuubta mm ul | M ine popular crrui cuuccimug kut,ui d . wuv, -wvv r ... h —j »
sorts beyond their confines is secre t of the Sphinx grows out of! go in a horizontal direction for 127
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To the south of the third pyra
mid are three small ones- “The
Beside that of Unas and the anci
ent Apis (Sacred Bull) Mauso
leum or Serapium, the great Step
Pyramid, one sees—after a wide
detour the ruins of ancient Mem
phis, i "beautiful dwelling" or the i
1 ,<),C ' "good place’-’) the former capital of
Lower Egypt, with its remains or
the Temple of Ptah, built by Ram-!
ses 11 , and the two colossal pros-:
trate statues of Ramses IL. one!
s aves, j k e jng 12 feet high and the]
c other 42 feet high, of fine and J
hard limestone. All are very well
worthy a visit of a day.
We wish to say two things more
to the Gizeh group and the'
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all done by camels and little donk- i [fig confusion of this with the feet to the centre of the I yramid as iu me va./.ci gtoup u,,,, v...^
evs. while dark-blue skinned and! uure |y n iythical Grecian sphinx.! to “the Queen’s Chamber ( 19 by smooth casing of part of the top o ^ Sphimc. “as much greater than all
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almost hairless and sluggish andjgh e had the body of a winged j 17 feet and 20 feet centre height, the Second Pyramid, amUhc mag
big-boned buffaloes with horns j i lone9S ar >d the head and breast of with air holes to the north and’
like those of sheep lying curled _
flat on the back of their necks are 1 cou id no t answer her riddl
used largely in plowing and irrigat-1 r ifi,ji e waS) -a being with
woman, and devoured all whojsoutn faces of the pyramid.) Re-
The ! turning to the junction point of
l the mag- othcr sphinxes as the Pyramids
nificent granite blocks which , grcat(jr tha n all other temples or
four ’ the passages, and, going on past
ing work. A horse is a rare thing j f eet has two feet, and three feet, j the shaft that descends 192 teet
out of town. land only only one voice, but its
On first sight the pyramids seem j feet vary, and when it has most it
made up of insignificant-looking
dirty little bricks, but on leaving
our carriages and near approach
they show up in large blocks ot
hardest and whitest marbly stone,
especially apparent on the inter
ior where not smoked-up by guides
and others. From the foot of the
Great Pyramid called Cheops, as
is the custom (some on camels,
some on. donkeys, some a-walking
but paying dearly for it in energy),
all wend their way over the hot
desert sands to the Great Sphinx,
th?* great couchant lion like body
with man like head in stone fac-
‘ . «, - —- --
is weakest.’ Anyone who could
not guess this riddle deserved to
be eaten; for of course the answer
was ‘man, who creeps in infancy
and carries a staff in old age.’
The Egyptian Sphinx looks far too
wise to indulge in so frivolous a
conundrum, and too benevolent to
eat anyone * * * The Sphinx has
no secret; its meaning is well un
derstood. It is the image of Harm-
aker, or Horus, the sun-god—the
god of the dead sun come to life.
It is the image of the morning,the
symbol of hope. It stands ex
pectant of a new day after each
the lower stages of the third, serve tombs
to show what they must have beon
If, as is likely.
the
to show what they must have been , Sph . nx , ay couched at the en .
all, from top to bottom, the trance, now deep in sand, of the
to the subterranean chamber (it
self connected in a straight line
with the descending passages from
the entrance) we enter the ascent
in the Great Gallery at the same
angle (151 feet long, 7 f eet wide
and 28 feet high,; pass along a
horizontal passage 22 leet long
with ante-chamber attached, and
go into “the King’s Chamber"
(the principal one of the pyramid,
somewhat to the south* and east of
centre, 35 by 17 by 19 feet in di
mension, with roofing of same con
sisting of nine granite slabs, each
18 1 2 feet long, and air-shafts
north and south,) in the upper end
of which is an uninscribed, lidless,
and second, brilliant white or yel
low limestone, smooth from top to
bottom, instead of those rude, 4 1s ' | f orm an essential part of this im-
jointed masses which their stripped menge still mor e, if, as
vast approach to the second, that
is the Central Pyramid, so as to
sides (for building purposes in arid
about Cairo) now
third all glowing with the red I
granite from the First Cataract." j
We must not think of “the Py-;
ramids,” however, as confined to;
those at Gizeh, for there are no
less than seventy Pyramids, or
“ Everlasting Resting Places, ”
each having its own name, gener
ally applying to rest in the future
mense group; still more, if, as
arKj seems possible, there was once in
present, t ie ten( j ec j to de —according to the
usual arrangements which never
left a solitary Sphinx any more
than a solitary obelisk—a brother
, Sphinx on the northern side, as
this on the southern side of the
approach, its situation and mag-
nificance was worthy of its gran-
And if, further, the Sphinx
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