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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. VII. 
‘ Esneh [Latopolis), December 29. — On the 
walls, among other subjects, are many sculptured 
fishes — the old name of the place indicating the 
special worship of the Lates (a Nile fish), com- 
bined with the giant deities, made me suggest the 
possible origin of the exclamation, “ O ye gods 
and little fishes ! ” ’ 
‘ 30i'/z.— Reached our furthest point, the Isle 
of Philo, and returned to Assouan, below the 
First Cataract, and there saw the new year in.’ 
On the voyage from Alexandria to Brindisi 
he encountered rough weather. ‘ I tumbled out,’ 
he says, ‘ and got on deck, where I danced a sort 
of impromptu and irregular hornpipe until I finally 
settled down to my sea legs.’ 
'Naples, January 19, 1871. — At Foggia the 
main part of the train runs northward, and our 
part was closely packed with passengers. I was 
the only man who ventured into one of the few 
first-class carriages, which was already occupied 
by a young couple and their three months’ old 
baby, and as one after another of the males (the 
ladies being safely stowed) put their heads in at 
the window, the cries of “ Bambino” put them 
to a precipitate flight. As a grandfather, I 
stuck to my seat, and no sooner was the train in 
motion than the infant went to sleep, and I, having 
the whole of the opposite side, slept blissfully till 
daybreak. In the Intervals I studied the whole 
process of swathing, and a very artful piece of 
