Society at Abou Simbel--The Painter Discovers a Rock-cut Chamber--Sunday Employment--Re-enforcement of Natives--Excavation--The Sheik--Discovery of Human Remains--Discovery of Pylon and Staircase--Decorations of Painted Chamber--Inscriptions 295 CHAPTER XIX. BACK THROUGH NUBIA. Temples _ad infinitum_--Tosko--Crocodiles--Derr and Amada Again--Wady Sabooah--Haughty Beauty--A Nameless City--A River of Sand--Undiscovered Temple--Maharrakeh--Dakkeh--Fortress of Kobban--Gerf Hossayn--Dendoor--Bayt-et-Welly--The Karnak of Nubia--Silco of the Ethiopians--Tafah--Dabôd--Baby-shooting--A Dilemma--Justice in Egypt--The Last of Philæ 324 CHAPTER XX. SILSILIS AND EDFU. Shooting the Cataract--Kom Ombo--Quarries of Silsilis--Edfu the Most Perfect of Egyptian Temples--View from the Pylons--Sand Columns 353 CHAPTER XXI. THEBES. Luxor Again--Imitation “Anteekahs”--Digging for Mummies--Tombs of Thebes--The Ramesseum--The Granite Colossus--Medinet Habu--The Pavilion of Rameses III--The Great Chronicle--An Arab Story-teller--Gournah--Bab el Molûk--The Shadowless Valley of Death--The Tombs of the Kings--Stolen Goods--The French House--An Arab Dinner and Fantasia--The Coptic Church at Luxor--A Coptic Service--A Coptic Bishop 370 CHAPTER XXII. ABYDUS AND CAIRO. Last Weeks on the Nile--Spring in Egypt--Ninety-nine in the Shade--Samata--Unbroken Donkeys--The Plain of Abydus--Harvest-time--A Biblical Idyll--Arabat the Buried--Mena--Origin of the Egyptian People--Temple of Seti--New Tablet of Abydus--Abydus and Teni--Kom-es-Sultan--Visit to a Native Aga--The Hareem--Condition of Women in Egypt--Back at Cairo--“In the Name of the Prophet, Cakes!”--The Môlid-en-Nebee--A Human Causeway--The Boulak Museum--Prince Ra-hotep and Princess Nefer-t--Early Drive to Ghîzeh--Ascent of the Great Pyramid--The Sphinx--The View from the Top--The End 421 APPENDIX. I. A. McCallum, Esq., to the Editor of _The Times_ 447 II. The Egyptian Pantheon 447 III. The Religious Belief of the Egyptians 450 IV. Egyptian Chronology 452 V. Contemporary Chronology of Egypt, Mesopotamia and Babylon 454 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE. The Secret of the Sphinx. After a Painting by Elihu Vedder, Esq. x Head of Ti 57 The Shâdûf 69 Cleopatra 111 Shrines of Osiris, 1, 2 and 3 205-206 Resurrection of Osiris 207 Cartouches of Rameses the Great 237