Vyse II · p. 89

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Y               OPERATIONS           CARRIED ON AT GIZEH .                          89


                                     August 3d.
                                Reis , 8.        Men , 119 .          Children , 55 .

        Third   Pyramid .   -   Clearing    chambers and passages .
        Eighth Pyramid .    -   Clearing chamber and passage .


       I called on the Shereef of Mecca , who was encamped
    at the edge of the arable ground near the northern dyke ;
    and , when    I took my leave , he sent a Coptic secretary
    and an Armenian , to read the inscription                     in the Third
    Pyramid .  They began by copying the diagram on the
    great stone over the entrance of the Seventh . The Copt
    then entered the Fifth , and looked at the writings , which
    the Cadi had already partly deciphered . Both of them
    afterwards examined the characters in the Third , as                                I
    have already mentioned .
        Having dismissed these persons , I entered the Eighth
    Pyramid , and found in the anteroom twelve or thirteen
    skulls , and a bronze armlet , with a piece of brown stone
    shaped like part of a female hand , which was remarkable ,
    as the building was supposed to have been the tomb                                  of
    the daughter      of Cheops .            The entrance - passage and se-
    pulchral chamber were on the same plan                      as those        in the
    Seventh     and   Ninth Pyramids ; the masonry had been
    pulled down in search of other apartments ; and a quantity
    of bones and broken mummy - cases were found in it , by
    which it would appear that it had been subsequently used
    as a general place of sepulture ; but there were not any
    remains     of a sarcophagus .               I did not think it worth
    while to be at further trouble or expense about these
    tombs , as they had been completely ransacked .
        The Shereef of Mecca dined with me.                       He came with
    a large suite , and was accompanied by his two sons , and