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pafTage there, as. they who have gone down have obferved ; a pafTage mnft 
have been cut in the Rock then, which would have coft a great deal of Money, 
and been known of every Body. It were more probable to think that they 
entered it by the Hole, which (aslfaid) is in the pretended Temple of the 
fécond" Pyramide, or rather by another, which is at the fide of that Idol, and 
very near it. Thefe two Holes are very narrow, and almofl: choaked up with 
Sand, wherefore we entred not into them, nnt knowing belîdes, but that we 
might meet with Vipers, or other Venemous Beafts in them. But though there 
had been a way through the Rocks into that Idol, how could the Voice of 
that feigned Oracle have come out, fince there is no hole neither at the Mouth, 
Nofe, Eyes, nor Ears of it? It may be faid, perhaps, that the Voice was 
uttered by the Crown of the Head, where there is a Hole, into which we en- 
deavoured to have cafi: forae Hooks faftened to Ropes, that 1 had brought pur- 
pofely with me, that we might get up, but we could not compafs that, be- 
caufe of the height of it 5 only when we threw up Stones, they relied there. 
And a f^eneti an allured me. that he and Tome others, having got up by means 
of little Hooks and a Pole, which they brought with them ; they found a 
Hole in the Crown of the Head of it, and having entred therein, perceived 
that it drew narrower and narrower proportionably, as it approached to the 
Breaft where it ended. The Voice of him that entred then, by the above- 
mentioned Holes, did not come out that way, and therefore it mull be con- 
cluded, that if any entred it, it muft have been by a Ladder in the Night- 
time, and that he put himfelf into the hole that is in the Head, out of which 
his Voice came. 
CHAP. VI. 
Of the Mummies. 
H 
Aving viewed the Pyramides and Idol, we went and Lodged in the Vil- ^ , 
lage of the Mimmks^ called Sak^ira , three good Leagues from the yuia" of 
Pyramides ^ we fpoke to a Moor of the Village, who is the Mailer of the Mum- the Mummies, 
mies, that he would take care to have a Mummie-V'it opened for us againft 
next Morning. He carried us to a Houfe, where we Supped on what w'e had How People 
brought along with us, and then went to reit upon a little Riling in the 'leep at 5^?- 
Court.- When we were about to go out next Morning, they asked Money for 
Watching.us ( as they faid j all Night ^ and it was to no purpofe for us to tell 
them that we wanted none of their Watching, and that we had care enough to 
Guard our felves ; for all our Huffing was in vain, and there they Ihut us in, 
till we gave a Piaftre to be let out. They who would not be fo impofed upon , 
ought to lie abroad in the Fields ■■, but that's not fafe, for they are very greedy 
of Money, and fpare not to do any thing fo they may come by it. And as they 
fancy, that the Franks carry always a good deal about them, when they have 
them in their Clutches, they fqueefe from them all they can. Wherefore 
when any one goes the^re, he ought to be well Accompanied, well Armed, 
and have a good flout Jamz^ary^ and with all that, one muft not venture to 
beat them ; for if he did, he would foon have all the Rabble about his Ears. 
We parted then from that Village early in the Morning, with the Mafter of 
the Mummies^ and went to the Plain where the MMnmie-V\x.% are, a little way 
from the Village, and ( I think ; it would be very convenient to fet out two 
Hours before day, to avoid the heat of the Sun, for there is no Ihelter there. 
This Plain begins near the place, where the ftately City of Memphis heretofore "^^^ 
ftood, of which fome marks are ftill to be feen near the Nile. There are A^io\"^e]"p - 
feveral Pyramides in this Plain, and that for feveral Miles together ^ but not ramklc to-^' 
being very confiderable, I lhall only fpeak of a very fair one, which is four ^^^rds the 
or five Miles from the Place, where they opened a MHmmis-ViX. for us. Havina P'^^^ '^'^^ 
, o Mummies, 
then 
