PYRAMIDS OF SACCARA. 219 
We saw two jirahs crossing; the Nile, where chap. 
it was at least half a mile wide, by means of . .\ , 
empty gourds, which they used instead of blad- 
ders, with their clothes fastened upon their 
heads. It was nine o'clock before we steered 
our djerm into a canal leading towards Saccdra. 
We passed the village which Savory believed situation 
to denote the situation of antient Memphis, and phu. 
concurred with him in his locality of the city^. 
His description of the place, particularly of the 
Causeway and the Lake, is very accurate. But 
the village is not called Menf, or Menph, as he 
pretends, but Menshee a Dashoo*. The LaJce at 
this time was, in great measure, become a part 
of the general inundation. We sailed the whole 
way to the Pyramids of Saccdra, with the excep- 
tion of about half a mile, which it was necessary 
to ride over, to the Mummy Pits. 
Just beyond Menshee a Dashoo we were much Tamuius 
seen 
struck by the appearance of a Tumulus, (stand- among the 
mg to the south oi a large graduated pyramid,) 
which, instead of being pyramidal, exhibits a less 
artificial and therefore a more antient form of 
(3) Porocke also places it near the same spot. 
(4) This seems to have been Pococke's " ElMenshich Deshour." 
See Dcscr. of the East, vol. I. p. 49. 
