terrors of his followers--Solitude of the desert--Discovers a horde of Hoozwanas--Obtains their friendship--Character of these wild people--They reconduct him to his camp on the Gariep--Accident--Oxen stolen by the Bushmen--Follows them to their kraal--Battle--Recovers his cattle, and returns to the camp--Befriends a miserable white family--Is on the point of death--Recovers--Returns to the Cape--And then to Europe--Publishes his travels--Dies 262 BELZONI. Born at Padua--Is designed for the monastic life--Studies at Rome--Hydraulics--Invasion of Italy by the French--Alters his plan of life--Departs from Rome--Arrives in England--Marries--Remains nine years in Great Britain--Travels through the south of Europe--Malta--Arrives in Egypt--Enters into the service of the pasha--Constructs an hydraulic machine--View from the Pyramids--Is near being murdered by a soldier--Rebellion of the janizaries--Quits the service of the pasha--Undertakes the removal of the Memnon’s head--Ascends the Nile--Arrives at Thebes--Magnificence of the ruins--Establishes himself in the Memnonium--Removes the head to the Nile--Visits the Necropolis at Gournon--Loses himself in the sepulchres--Horrors of the tombs--Proceeds to Assouan--His boat attacked on the Nile--Reaches Deir--Temple of Ipsambul--Ignorance of the Nubians--Use of money--Returns to Thebes--Embarks the head of Memnon--Antiquarians--Is shot at in the ruins of Thebes--Descends the Nile to Rosetta--Mr. Briggs--Returns to Cairo, and thence again to Thebes--Mummy-pits--Decay of the mummies--Proceeds to Ipsambul--Opens the temple--Sepulchres of the kings--Alabaster sarcophagus--Visits the emerald mines on the Red Sea--Returns to Cairo--Visits the Oasis of Jupiter Ammon--Returns to England--Publishes his travels--Proceeds again to Africa--Dies 327 DOMINIQUE VIVANT DENON. Born 1754.--Died 1825.