AROUND THE WORLD
Port Said, Eoypt, Fob. 20, 1903.
Egypt lias a population of about
7,000,000 tho Krcator number of whom
arc descendants of tho original inhnhit
ants who Antedated the coming of
Jacob (lsraul) several thousand years.
Tho Normad Hedoiunis number about
300,060; Turks about 16,000; Greeks
about 40,000; Italians about 18,000;
French iO.ooo and iG.ooo English,
Austrinns and Germans. Cotton is the
chief article of export, though wheat
and rice nro also Horns in the export
list. Thorc are about 1,200 miles of
railroad and canals rre everywhere
among tho low lands along the Nile. It
was a surprise to mo to note that tho
Nile has only a very narrow strip of
land on each side that can be cultivated.
Tho icnmindcr is desert with the ex
ception of a few small oases. I follow
cd the Nile 730 miles south from Alex
andria and am safe in asserting that
below tho delta country, one can sec
across the green belt from tho eastern
sand dunes to tho western sand patched
Saharas. This narrow belt of greenery
follows tho Nile, affording tho food
supply. So valuable is this narrow
belt that much of it rents at from $20
to $30 per aero aunuallv.
Having arrived in Cairo at 5 o'clock
in tho evening, was Impatient for the
morrow's sun as fhad read and
dreamed of the pyramids until anxiety
was at the climax. To think of being
within seven miles of the greatest won
der of tho world, and tho only one of
original seven wonders that remains to
this day, and bo forced to wait till
morning to behold it was about us try
ing to mo aB it was for my little boy
Victor, aged five, who having patiently
waited three weeks for the coming of
an advertised menagerie said on the
day before the event, "Mamma, do I
have to sleep again before I can see
the elephants?" 1 managed to sleep
apart of the night, though it was a
battle, and hastened toward tho Egyp
tian giants' headquarters soon after
aurora's horsemen drove in sight.
Crossing the Nile bridge I entered the
tram which runs to the pyramid hourly
in the forenoon and every half hour in
the afternoon, rcquiriug about iorty
minutes in each direction, charge of
three piasters (15 cents) for the round
trip; the distance is said to be seven
miles. Approaching the pyramid, ac
companied by Mr. J, W. Sprankle of
Cleveland, Ohio, an old college mate, I
was disappointed, but on my arrival
and wulking up to the base and casting
my eyes toward itss summit I was as
tonished, bewildered with the propor
tions of the giant. Tho base lino is
732 and its perpendicular height is 4G0
feet and it is said to cover thirteen
acres of ground. No picture can do the
pyramid justice. Its immensity to be
appreciated or even imagined must be
seen. History freely pronounces it the
most stupendous stucture erected by
, tho hand of man in all the world. Its
building antedates history. Herodatus,
tho father of history, came here and
picked up every available thread of
tradition lingering in tho minds of the
people, and stated that it was built by
a pro-historic race, rcquiriug 100,000
men ten years in getting the materials
and twenty additional years to erect
this wonder of the world. Some assert
that it was built uncounted vears be
fore the flood. Herodotus assigned it
to King Cheops, who, it is asserted,
reigned over Egypt 4,200 years 15. C.
When Egyptologists differ at least-twenty-two
ccntures in their chronolo
gical statements one must be on his
guard when any date whatever is even
suggested. Other writers such as
Diodorus and Phiny try to unravel the
mystery, but failure perches upon their
every attempt.
Bunscn claims that Egypt had en
joyed at least 6,700 years of prosperity
before the pyramid building was begun.
Piazzi Smith, a noted Egyptoligist,
thought that the great pyrimid was the
first one reared of tho family of pyri-
mids numbering over thirty, and that
it was undertaken immediately after the
migration into Egypt from tho plains
of Shinar under divine guidance, and
sets tho date at 2,170 13. C. when the
Pleiades pointed exactly at the entrance
passage. The pyramid was built to be
used as a tomb. At 820 A. D. an en
trance was forced into the pyramid
discovering to the world two large
chambers. The entrance is about forty
feet from the base of the northern side
and leads through a massive vaulted
gallery to a subterranean chamber 347
feet from the entrance and about ninety
feet below the base of the pyramid.
This largo chamber is 46x27 feet and
eleven feet in height. It is believed
that this chamber was constructed to
deceive people and cause them to think
it the real resting place of the king.
But about sixty feet from the entrance
and upward passage bogius leading to
wards the center of the pyramid. After
wo followed this about 120 feet we
came to a place called the Great Gal
lery, where a well or shaft more than
ioofc6t deep leads down to the subter
ranean chamber. Just before reaching
tho Groat galery we turned off on a
passage no feet in length, leading into
the Queen's chamber, which is twenty
feet high and 18x17 length and
breadth. Returning to the passageway
we entered the Great gallery which is
seven feet wide, twenty-eight tcot high
and 150 feet long, which loads upward
to tho King's chamber, the largest, be
ing 34x17x19 feet. In the King's
chamber is a sarcophagus cut out of
red sandstone. The lid has been taken
away by vandals if one ever existed.
Many urge that this piece of red sand
stone was not carved to bo used as a'
sarcophagus, but as a standard of meas
ure which should be handed down to
all time, being the exact size of the
laver of the Hebrews. Above the
King's chamber arc two smaller rooms
which I did not visit as they afford no
interest. The stone in the Great gal
lery is so spioothly polished that one
can stand upright only with great dif
ficulty. It is really not safe to make
the trip with shoes, so slippery is the
footing and in places to slip means
severe bruises if not death, yet people
continue to wear their shoes on that
crawling, slippery, climbing, irksome
trip. Wind cave, Mammoth cave and
the tho Cave of tho Winds are easily
visited compared with the interior of
the great pyramid. Until those too
holds in the smooth, steep rock are
deepened. I shall pronounce it danger
ous to make the tour of the interior
even if you do have two Arabs to help
you, whose charge is two shillings. Hut
of all trips requiring strength, a level
head and endurance, that to the top of
the great pyramid easily preeminent.
For two Arab helpers a charge of two
shillings is made and none but the
strong should attempt the climb.
Should one become dizzy enroute to
the summit a fall and the smashing of
every bone js certain. When about
half way up I looked down to the ground
and it seemed that tho earth was fad
ing from view, and when I turned my
eyes towaid the summit it appeared
that the ascent had only bcgmi, so de
ceiving are the surroundings. The
slant height or hypotenuse is" said to bo
610 feet. I had ascended tho Washing
ton monument 500 feet in the elevator
and was ahnost afraid to look out of
the portals at that dizzy height as the
scene bewildered, but here I was 460
feet above the level of tho ground and
610 feet from the starting point and on
tho outside of the world's greatest
wonder, which mado the cold chills
creep from tho alpha to the omega of
my framework on account of -the ex
treme danger incident to this aerial
situation.
E. C. Hqun.
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