. Wanderings in Bible lands: notes of travel in Italy, Greece, Asia-Minor, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Cush, and Palestine. Mummy Head of the Pha?aoh of theOppression. From a Photograph. 240 WANDERINGS IN BIBLE LANDS. each one a thief. One by one the coffins were hoisted tothe surface, were securely sewed up in sail-cloth and mat-ting, and then carried across the plain of Thebes to thesteamers awaiting them at Ahd er-Rasul, Brugsch Bey, and Maspero.(As photographed by E. L. Wilson at the mouth of the shaft at Deir-el-Bahari.) WANDERINGS IN BIBLE LANDS. 241 Two squads of Arabs accompanied e
. Wanderings in Bible lands: notes of travel in Italy, Greece, Asia-Minor, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Cush, and Palestine. Mummy Head of the Pha?aoh of theOppression. From a Photograph. 240 WANDERINGS IN BIBLE LANDS. each one a thief. One by one the coffins were hoisted tothe surface, were securely sewed up in sail-cloth and mat-ting, and then carried across the plain of Thebes to thesteamers awaiting them at Ahd er-Rasul, Brugsch Bey, and Maspero.(As photographed by E. L. Wilson at the mouth of the shaft at Deir-el-Bahari.) WANDERINGS IN BIBLE LANDS. 241 Two squads of Arabs accompanied each sarcophagus,—one to carry it and the other to watch the wily the Nile overflow, lying midway of the plain, wasreached, as many more boatmen entered the service andbore the burden to the other side. Then a third ^set tookup the ancient freight and carried it to the steamers. Slowworkers are these Egyptians, but after six days of hardlabor under the July sun, the work was finished. I never shall forget the scene I witnessed when,standing at the mouth of the shaft, I watched the strangeline of helpers while they carried across that historicalplain the bodies of the very kings who had constructedthe temples still standing, and of the very priests who hadofficiated in them,—the Temple of Hatason nearest; awayacross from Qurneh; further to the right the Ramesseum,where the great granite mon
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