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Show I ~ GYPTIA!\ Vli.I. . \GI ~ the city was out that afternoon and Pyramid Road was crow led with the fine t f turnout - horses and carriages-and the number of automobile. would cause one to think he was still in Jn t\ merican City. These were not our chief imcrest. \ \ ' e were hunting that which was more ancient and more lasting--the Pyramids and the Sphinx. Their pictures had excited our admiration and fired our imagination through the years and we had longed to sec these silent old Sentinels of ~gypt with an intensity that had stirred our \'cry soul. Now we were ha. ten ing to them, the heartbeats grew faster but the moments seemed longer. On our way we passed hundreds of nati\·es being carried along by their friends-the donkey or the camel. Just over there, other nati\·es were plowino· with a camel and an ox. Near the de. ired place gr at numbers of o·aily attired d nkeys and camels were offered by their drivers to tho. e wh sought the Eo·yptian wonders. Our driver stopped hi horses within 200 yards of the great Pyramid. Our own 'yes no\v looked upon it and our hands were soon to touch it. \Vc were going t communicate with the long ancl almost lo. t centuries, for it must he remembered that these Pyramids were huilt. perhaps. by the Pharaohs. llcre is antiquity that is w II nigh antiquated, and here is a monument that makes one feel that he is indeed a very . mall factor in the world's progrrss. but that his works shal l live after him. Three of l~gypt's Pyr;tmicls arc here found ancl all were visited. The largest tiTle-" 'heops" -was built by the Sc~oncl King of the fourth dynasty, 'v\'ho ruled 37 33 years fL ·_ Something-f the ize of these monuments may be obtained. by noting that this one measures, at the ba r Page Twenty three |