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Show of sight-s eein<Y for the tourist to Eo·ypt. J u t a little way north is Karnak, where one looks upon a ruin that cover· an area of nearly two miles in circumference. Thi::, ruined Temple wa. once joined to the ruin s of the Luxor 1 emple by an avenue over a mile in length and eighty feel wide, being lined on each side by immense sto ne phinxes of which nly a few badly mutilated ones r emain. This Temple of Karnak is regarded as the most wonderful one in a ll Eo·ypt. l\Jore tl1an 3000 ye;ns were spent upon its building. Tt was begun by Osirlasen J. and added to by every succeeding Kino- until about 100 H. Now it is simply one mass of ruin and the natives are now carryino· away its crumblino· du. t for fertili ze r to their field . . \ \ ' e n o ticed that boys were being used to carr_\thi dehri from within and that they were being driven and lashed by a ta. kma ler as cruel as those under Pharaoh, but th lads were singing in pite of the cruelty being visited upon them. To our inquiry. the Dragoman informed us that they were sayino·, "J!elp me, 0 Cod, for J am very tired.'' Among other thing. that especially atlract the attention of the touri L as they wander around this o ld Temple are: the (;rand I [yp - . tyle IIall, wherein are found tweh-c columns, forming a double row down th<.: center, ach being 69 feel high ancl 35 fed in circumference. There are _till other column , 122 of them, in thi s llall. and they arc 40 feet high ancl 27 feet in circumference. ~[be Ilall itself being 338 by 170 feel. A mo t wonderfully pre en·ed red granite beli . k 92 feet hig-h and feet sq uare and covered over with :1lmost perfect hicr - glyphics is here found. The Ilall of Ancestors is here and in it wa. fm111d the Tablet of An- Page Twenty· nine |