. Wanderings in Bible lands: notes of travel in Italy, Greece, Asia-Minor, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Cush, and Palestine. ian artists thousands of years ago. Around about Sakkara are eleven small one known as the Step Pyramid is the most interest-ing. It consists of six stages or steps, ranging in heightfrom twenty-nine to thirty-eight feet. Each of the steps issix and a half feet wide. The perpendicular height is onehundred and ninety-seven feet. Some authorities are of the opinion that the StepPyramid is older than Cheops. The interior contains anumber of passages and chambers. Ma
. Wanderings in Bible lands: notes of travel in Italy, Greece, Asia-Minor, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Cush, and Palestine. ian artists thousands of years ago. Around about Sakkara are eleven small one known as the Step Pyramid is the most interest-ing. It consists of six stages or steps, ranging in heightfrom twenty-nine to thirty-eight feet. Each of the steps issix and a half feet wide. The perpendicular height is onehundred and ninety-seven feet. Some authorities are of the opinion that the StepPyramid is older than Cheops. The interior contains anumber of passages and chambers. Mariette, after a care-ful examination of the chambers, was led to conclude thatthis pyramid had once contained the tombs of Apis. On our return to the steamer we secure some of theantiquities offered for sale by the wayside venders. Wehave a lamp that was probably used four thousand years I t52 wanderings in bible lands. ago, with several stone-cut scarabs nearly as old, which we hope to bring home with us. The day has been one of hard work, but of intense in-terest. The shades of evening are gathering around us as. The Step Pyramid at Sakkara. we recross the site of ancient Memphis. Our thoughts arecarried back to the time when Moses and Aaron went be-fore Pharaoh and demanded that he should let Israel go. In the city, now buried beneath mouldering heaps anddesert sand, the faithful and fearless leader braved thewrath of the King; for he endured, as seeing who isinvisible This was the spot where Pharaoh rose up in thenight he and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; andthere was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a housewhere there was not one dead! Our thoughts pass awayfrom the palaces, smitten with this sudden and sore be-reavement, to the homes of the enslaved race, waiting se-curely for the signal to depart, whilst through faith they WANDERINGS IN BIBLE LANDS. 163 kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest Hethat destroyed the first born should touch
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