JOHN EVESHAM a.d. 



1586. 



about twentie score every square, being built as it were 

 a pointed diamond, broad at the foote, and small or 

 narrow at the toppe : the heigth of them, to our judge- 

 ment, doth surmount twise the heigth of Paules steeple : 

 within the saide Pyramides, no man doth know what 

 there is, for that they have no entrance but in the one 

 of them, there is a hole where the wall is broken, and so 

 we went in there, having torch-light with us, for that it 

 hath no light to it, and within the same, is as it were 

 a great hall, in the which there is a costly tombe, which 

 tombe they say, was made for king Pharao in his life 

 time, but he was not buried there, being drowned in the 

 red sea : also there are certaine vauts or dungeons, which 

 goe downe verie deepe under those Pyramides with faire 

 staires, but no man dare venter to goe downe into them, 

 by reason that they can cary no light with them, for the 

 dampe of the earth doth put out the light : the red sea 

 is but three daies journey from this place, and Jerusalem 

 about seven dayes journey from thence : but to returne 

 to Cayro. There is a Castle wherin is the house that 

 Pharaoes wives were kept in, and in the Pallace or Court 

 thereof stande 55 marble pillars, in such order, as our 

 Exchange standeth in London : the said pillars are in 

 heigth 60 foote, and in compasse 14 foote: also in the [11.1.282.] 

 said Citie is the castle were Joseph was in prison, where 

 to this day they put in rich men, when the king would 

 have any summe of money of them : there are seven 

 gates to the sayd prison, and it goeth neere fiftie yardes 

 downe right : also, the water that serveth this castle, 

 commeth out of the foresaide river of Nilus, upon a wall 

 made with arches, five miles long, and it is twelve foote 

 thicke. Also there are in old Cayro two Monasteries, 

 the one called S. Georges, the other S. Maries : & in the 

 Courts where the Churches be, was the house of king 

 Pharao. In this Citie is great store of marchandize, 

 especially pepper, and nutmegs, which come thither by 

 land, out of the East India : and it is very plentifull of 

 all maner of victuals, especially of bread, rootes, and 



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