Grant's tour around the world; with incidents of his journey through England, Ireland, Scotland .. . in 1865, and is, per-haps, the most valuable of the monuments, because itknits up the unraveled threads of Egyptian history andgives you a continuous link from this day to the day ofMoses. You pass your fingers over the stone and notehow beautiful and clear are the lines. And as you see it,you see the manifest honesty of the men who did the work,of the king who told all he knevf, and of the truth of whatwas written. I believe in the stone and feel, as I said amoment ago, a little of the enthusi
Grant's tour around the world; with incidents of his journey through England, Ireland, Scotland .. . in 1865, and is, per-haps, the most valuable of the monuments, because itknits up the unraveled threads of Egyptian history andgives you a continuous link from this day to the day ofMoses. You pass your fingers over the stone and notehow beautiful and clear are the lines. And as you see it,you see the manifest honesty of the men who did the work,of the king who told all he knevf, and of the truth of whatwas written. I believe in the stone and feel, as I said amoment ago, a little of the enthusiasm of Stanley whenhe stood at the trickling source of the Nile. So we follow Brugsch out of the chamber and fromruined wall to wall. The ruins are on a grand is a temple which the Khedive is rescuing fromthe sand. The city was in its time of considerable impor-tance, but this was ages ago, ages and ages; so that itsglory was dead even before Thebes began to reign. Thebesis an old city, and yet I suppose, compared with Thebes,Abydos is as much older as one of the buried AzteC towns. AROUND THE WORLD. 269 in Central America is older than New York. When thetemple is all dug out we shall find it to have been a stu-pendous affair; but there are other temples, too, in bettercondition, and what interests us at Abydos is the , according to tradition—a tradition which Plutarchpartly confirms—was buried the god Ostris. The discov-ery of that tomb will be an event as important in Egyptol-ogy as even the discovery of America by Columbus inhis day. In the earliest times it was believed Osiris wasburied here. To the ancient Egyptians the burial placeof that god was as sacred as Mecca is to the Moslems orthe Holy Sepulchre to the Mediseval Christians. Thegovernment has, therefore, been digging in all directions,and we started after Brugsch to see the work. Mrs. Grantrode along on her donkey, and the rest of us went in dif-ferent directions on foot. There had been tr
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