122 Travels into the Lew an t. Part I, 
Foot three Inches Wide This paflage, or rather lînk-hoîe, as being very 
fteep and (helving, continuing in the fame heighth and breadth, goes floaping 
down Seventy fix Foot, five Inches and two Barley Corns in length : At the 
bottom of thatDefcent, you find an Afcent of the fame widenefs, and (helving 
in the fame manner as the former, by which one goes up fome three Foot ; and 
the greateft difficulty of the Pyramide, is at this place. For fancy to your feif, 
that this Defcent butting in the Afcent, makes with it a (harp Ridg, over 
which there is a great Stone, which is the lowermoft Stone of the Roof of the 
Defcent, and is perpendicular to it, betwixt which and the Sand, there is not 
above a good Foots-fpace to pafs through ; fo that one mull Aide upon his 
Belly dofe upon the Ground,and for all that,you rub and grate your Back againft 
the aforefa id Stone, unlefs you be a very (lender Man; and befides, you muft 
advance with your feet up in the Defcent, your Belly low betwixt the Defcent 
and next Afcent, and your Head rifing up in the beginning of the fame Afcent. 
In (hort, in this narrow pafs, one muft crawl like a Serpent, and therefore it 
is very painful, fo that a thick Man would be itiffled in the Sand, unlefs he were 
fpeedily pulled out by the Feet ; for the Head muft go firft, it being utterly 
impolfible that the Feet (hould. This paflTage however, might be made eafie 
and palFable enough, if the Moors would take the pains to clear the Hole well, 
I mean, take out the Sand : For I went thither another time, when we were 
told, fome of the Ba^ms Servants had been there three days before, being 
curious to fee what it was that obliged the Franks to go into it, becaufe none 
but Franks go there j and we found the paffage fo clean and eafie, that we 
palTed it without putting either Belly or Knee to the Ground. And I make 
no doubt, but it is as high there, as at the entry into the Pyramide, but 
the Wind driving in much Sand, it heaps up in this place j and the Moors^ 
who are naturally Lazie, after they have removed two or three Load, carry 
out no more , unlefs they be very well pay'd , and threatned with a good 
Cudgel belides \ which Chriftians dare not do, nor yet defire that their Jani- 
z.ary (hould, for fear of an Avanie, Having paft this itreight, every one 
takes a lighted Candle ( and for that end, you muft not forget to bring feve- 
ral with you ) and a Steel and Tinder-box alfo, becaufe of a great many 
Bats that are there, which fometimes put out your Candles, which may go 
out alfo by many other accidents. There you find a fultry ftiffling Air, 
"which neverthelefs, you'll be foon accuftomed to, before you go up the in- 
ner Afcent. You'll find an ugly Hole on your Right hand, which reaches a 
pretty way, it hath not ( in all probability ) been purpofely made, but only 
by the decayings of Time ^ and is as narrow at the end, as at the mouth. 
Having then gone about an Hundred and eleven Foot in the aforefaid Afcent, 
Two other you find as it were two PalTages or Galleries, one low and parallel to the Ho- 
paffages in rizon, and the other high (loaning upwards like the former. There is a Well 
mfde!'^'^^' or pit at the entry of the firft paffage \ of which I (hall fpeak hereafter. This 
low palTage is three Foot and three Inches fquare, and leads to a Room not 
far diftant, with a (harp-ridged Seeling or Roof ; and near to this, or at leaft 
A window pretty high, feveral affirm that there is a Window, which gives a palFageinto 
alieS ot\itx places, but that one muft have a Ladder to get up to it. For my part, 
I maintain that there is no fuch Window, with refped ftill to thofe who 
fay there is, and they muft have taken a kind of dampnefs which is in that 
place for a Window ; for three times I afTayed to find it out, and every time 
carried a Rope-Ladder, which I had made with Hooks to get up with ; but 
having carefully fearched about with feveral Torches, neither I, nor any that 
were with me could find it. From the firft pafl^age you go up to the other, 
feven or eight Foot high, putting youc Feet in holes that are made in the 
Wall. This other paffage that mounts upwards, is fix Foot four Inches wide, 
and reaches in that manner an Hundred threefcore and two Foot, having on 
each fide ( as it were ) two little Benches, two Foot and a half high, to lean 
upon, and Holes in the Ground at every ftep, to reft ones Feet in. At the 
A Kail in the end of this paffage is the Hall, being thirty two Foot in length, nineteen in 
Pyramide, heighth, and fixteen in breadth \ the Roof of it is flat, confiding of Nine 
Stones, the feven in the middle being fixteen Foot long, and four Foot broad 
a piece, the other two at each end, appear not to be above two Foot broad a 
piece, 
