Part I. Travels into the Lev ant. i ^ 
fome places. When you come to that Pyramide, you mull lay afide what 
heavy things you have about you, and prepare to mount up to the top, whilft 
your Moors are clearing the paflage to go in ; for the Wind drives always a 
great deal of Sand into it, which ftops the pafTage to the bottom, and the 
y^/oon caft out that Sand. Befides, if one Ihould go in before he went up to 
thè top, he would be fo weary when he came out, that he would never reiblve 
to go up ; and then, it is belt going up before the Sun be high. It is fit you 
fliould have a Guide to go before you when you afcend, I mean, fome Frank, 
who hath been already there ; for if you do not take the right Way, you'll 
foon come to fuch places, where you can neither go up nor down^ without 
danger of tumbling headlong. The eafieft place to go up at, is the Angle T^e fide by 
that looks betwixt Eail and North. This Pyramide has Two hundred and 
eight great Stone-fteps, the thicknefs of a Stone making a ftep of about Two the Pylmkie 
Foot and a half high one with another, for fome of them are thicker, and 
above Three Foot high, as I meafured them ; this number of iteps has been 
obferved by fevcral, though fome reckon fewer, and others more. Nay, a 
Man coming again a fécond time, ftiall not find the fame number that he had at 
firft, if he begin not to afcend at the fame place ; becaufe betwixt the Corners 
towards the middle of the Front, there is a little Hill of Sand driven there by 
the Wind, that covers feveral fteps, which they that go up at that place 
reckon not: Befides, that the trouble ingoing up, makes one often mifcount j 
for you muft fet your Knees upon feveral fleps becaufe of their heighth, and 
then fome reckon half fleps for whole ones. Many think that thefe fteps have 
only been made by the Weather, but in all appearance, that could not have 
worn them out fo regularly, though without doubt, it eats out a great deal, 
as may be feen by the pieces that lie all round below. This Pyramide is Five The heighth- 
hundred and twenty Foot high, upon a Bafeof Six hundred and eighty two of the Pyra» 
Footfquare^ about half way up, in one of the Angles of the Pyramide, that 
looks betwixt Eafl and North, which is the place by which I fhould advife one 
to go up ; there is a little fquare Room, but nothing to be feen therein, only A Room. 
if you be Weary you may reft in it : And I am not again!!: what feveral do> 
who bring with them a little Bottle, or Gourd, full of Wine, to refrefti them- 
felves when they are got there, or up to the top, for it makes one very faint. 
When you are come up to the top,you find a fair Platform,from whence you have a Ratform 
apleafant Profped. This Platform which from below appears to you like a upon thePy- 
Point, is made of twelve lovely large Stones, being fixteen Foot and two '^^"li'^'e. 
thirds fquare ; there are fome Stones wanting, and it is to be believed, that 
they have been puflied down by Men, for the \A^eather could not do it. A Man, A stone 
unlefs he be extraordinary ftrong, cannot indeed, throw a Stone from the top, t'^'^own from 
and make it fall beyond the fteps of the Pyramide. For I got a pretty ft rong ^J]^ p^P 
Man to throw one, and all he could do, was to make it fail upon the twelfth ^i^e flSnoc 
Hep, or a little lower. But I look upon it as a Fable, that one cannot flioot beyond the 
an Arrow beyond the foundation of the Pyramide -, for it is certain, that an fteps. 
Arrow drawn by a good Arm, will eafily flie Three hundred and one and forty 
Foot, which is one half of the breadth of the Pyramide. 
Having confidered thefe things, we came down the fame way that we went The Door of 
up, and having taken a little reft, came to the Door of the Pyramide, which ^y^^' 
is at the fixteenth ftep as you go up, looking towards the North; it is not 
exactly in the middle, there being Three hundred and ten Foot of the fide be- 
low to the Eaftof it, which being fubftradted from Six hundred eighty two, 
there remain Three hundred feventy two Foot to the Weft fide -, fo that this 
fide furpafies the other by Sixty two Foot. Caire lies Northward from it. 
Now to come to this Door, you muft go up a little Hill, joyned to the Pyra- A little Hiii 
mide on that fide, which (aslfaid before) hath in my opinion, been made by ."^^ 
the Sand which the Wind hath brought there, and fo rifen up to a heap, becaufe y^^"^'''^* 
it could go no further, by reafon of the Pyramide. The Lintel over this stone^over^' 
Door is very confiderable, being one Stone eleven Foot long, and eight Foot the Door of 
thick: Before any go in, they make the Jamz.ary fire two or three Mufquet- the Pyra- 
fhot into it, to frighten away ( as they fay ) the Serpents that are there -, ni^^l^' 
but 1 never heard of any that had been found in it. The entry is fquare, and 
all along of a like Diraenfion , being three Foot fix Inches High, and three 
S 2 Foot 
