S48 Colonel Straton on the Sepulchral Caverns of Egypt, 
sole consisted of three distinct layers of whitish tough leather, 
resembling chamois. The sewing and stitching was very neatly 
executed : whitish thongs, nicely plaited, were attached to the 
sole. The figures in the sepulchres and temples are, however, 
generally barefooted, and I observe only one instance, where I 
have noted them as having sandals on the feet. 
In another sepulchre, 22 yards long by 21, is represented a 
figure, probably a Deity, with a very high cap, holding a rod 
(the hasta pura of the Romans,) in both hands : a female 
figure presents to him a leg of the gazelle The cap is yel- 
low, the dress white, with a yellow scarf over the shoulder, and 
bracelets and armlets of gold. The female wears a white dress, 
the under part of thin transparent stuff*, like muslin or gauze ; 
the skin, always painted reddish, appears through it. Her 
eyes are black, rendered larger to appearance, and elongated 
at the corners, by means of black paint. At present, the fe- 
males of this country, and even sometimes men, dye the 
eyebrows witlr galena or lead-glance, called in the Levant Al- 
quifoux ; it is reduced to a fine powder, and mixed up with 
the fuliginous vapour of a lamp. The eye-brows and eye- 
lids are painted, and the lashes are blackened, with a reed 
or quill, which is passed lightly between the eye-lids. The 
angles of the eye are also tinged, and prolonged, which makes 
it appear larger and more oblong. The ancient Egyptian 
ladies in many instances, and the men, in one, (at Ipsambul,) 
are represented as having resorted to the same arts of the toil- 
ette. Juvenal satirizes the Roman ladies for this coquetry: 
“ Ilia supercilium, madida fuligine tactum, 
‘‘ Obliqua producit acu, pingitque, trementes 
Attolleus oculos.'’ Juv. Sat. ii. I. 9S. 
In these sepulchral caverns, are frequently found small 
lirooms, of the stuff of which we make mats ; small figures of 
the human body, sometimes with the human head, at other 
times with the head of a cat, dog, scarabasus, &c. &c. These 
caverns have been selected for description, not on account of 
their extent or interest, but solely from their not having been 
known to former travellers. 
* Presentations of parts of.-animals, birds, bread, flowers, libations, Sic, &c. 
are very common. 
