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had been looking injured by my continued presence 

 on the scene. However, I saw it out, and it was 

 very well worth the seeing, as we all agreed, nor 

 could any meeting have been more orderly or better 

 conducted. 



" These sports at Luxor go on every Thursday 

 throughout the season, and the meeting we at- 

 tended was the third. They are timed to fit in 

 with Cook's big boats, which arrive weekly. If 

 any explanation of the programme is necessary it 

 may be that the letters P.T. stand for piastres, a 

 coin which you have got to understand before 

 you can do any good in this country. 



" Since the great events above recorded we have 

 left Luxor, and the doctor, having failed to dis- 

 cover further reason for interposing any sort of 

 veto, I have mounted a donkey, and ridden with 

 Mr. Darling to the Temple of Edfoo — quite a 

 modern temple, however, for Egypt, being little 

 over 2,000 years old. Next morning another 

 temple — that of Komombo — of similar style and 

 age, but of duplex character, in that one side of 

 it is dedicated to the evil deity and another to 

 the good. All these matters, however, can be 

 safely left for our friend Mohammed to explain, 

 and the worthy Dragoman is sometimes sorely 

 tried, as, for instance, by an American gentleman 

 who vowed that a bas-relief, in which spoons were 



