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of thofe murderers. " Well, well, faid I, now you have got 

 rid of your money, you are fafc, and you (hall be my fer- 

 vant; lye before the door of my dining-room all night, 

 they dare not hurt a hair of your head while I am alive." 



The Pyramids, which had been on our right hand at dif- 

 ferent diiiances fince we paffed the Saccara, terminated 

 here in one of a very lingular construction. About two 

 miles from the Nile, between Suf and Woodan, there is a 

 Pyramid, which at firft fight appears all of a piece ; it is of 

 unbaked bricks, and perfectly entire ; the inhabitants call 

 it the * Falfe Pyramid, The lower part is a hill exactly 

 ihaped like a Pyramid for a confiderable height. Upon 

 this is continued the luperftructure in proportion till it ter- 

 minates like a Pyramid above ; and, at a diltance, it would 

 require a good eye to difcern the difference, for the face of 

 the flone has a great refemblance to clay, of which the 

 Pyramids of the Saccara are compofed. 



Hassan Abou Cuffi was as good as his word in one re- 

 fpecl ; he came in the night, and had not drunk much fer- 

 mented liquors ; but he could find no fpirits, he faid, and 

 that, to be lure, was one of the reafons of his return ; I had 

 fat up a great part of the night waiting a feafon for obfer- 

 vation, but it was very cloud}', as all the nights had been 

 (ince wo left Cairo. 



The f Stb, about eight o'clock in the morning, we pre- 

 pared to get on our way ; the wind was calm, and fouth. 



I afked 



D gjour, 



