. Wanderings in Bible lands: notes of travel in Italy, Greece, Asia-Minor, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Cush, and Palestine. d more than four thousandyears ago measured just as accurately as he could, thatthey found the center of that circle along which the PoleStar moves, found the spot in the heavens to which theearths polar axis points—found the true north and reareda mighty building accordingly. And there it stands to-day, displaying a scientific knowledge equal to anythingattained in this boasted We climbed to the top of the Great Pyramid, a feat ofsome difficulty, when our. two hundred
. Wanderings in Bible lands: notes of travel in Italy, Greece, Asia-Minor, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Cush, and Palestine. d more than four thousandyears ago measured just as accurately as he could, thatthey found the center of that circle along which the PoleStar moves, found the spot in the heavens to which theearths polar axis points—found the true north and reareda mighty building accordingly. And there it stands to-day, displaying a scientific knowledge equal to anythingattained in this boasted We climbed to the top of the Great Pyramid, a feat ofsome difficulty, when our. two hundred pounds avoirdupoisis taken into consideration; but with the help of threeArabs, and a half hours climbing and resting, we reachedthe top and found a platform thirty feet square. The Arabs who assisted in the ascent by pushing andpulling were strong, athletic fellows. They understandtheir business, which is to take travelers up and down andget all the backsheesh out of them they possibly speak English, and encouraged me on the way up by * Contemporary Review, September, The Great Pyramid, page Climbing the Great Pyramid. I30 WANDERINGS IN BIBLE LANDS. saying, You go up very good, very good Arab, you giveme backsheesh. From the top of Cheops a magnificent view is had ofthe Nile Valley and the desert. The living green of thegarden-like fields, and the yellow sand of the desert meet,and the line between the two is sharply marked. It is apicture of life and death set in sharp and striking contrastThe fertile fields, receiving the life-giving waters of theNile, are teeming with living green. Groves of palm trees,stately and majestic, dot all the plain to the east. TheCity of Cairo, with its mosques, minarets, citadel anddomes, appears beyond the Nile like a jewel in a settingof emerald green. To the west an ocean of sand stretchesaway, far beyond the line of human vision. Silent andmysterious, it is a fit emblem of death. To the south theNile, like a silver thr
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