Chapter 30

And the tomb that I found was complete in the manner of the finest Egyptian tombs, with a room and a column leading to the corridor and ending in the mummy pit, and it had a table of pictures and it seemed some kind of record (which means its meaning is now lost forever) engraved in a strange color on a strange stone and all the walls of the room and corridor.

It was inscribed with strange writings on the said supernatural figure and the huge sarcophagus or sarcophagus in the deep pit was wonderfully hewn all around with marks and the Arab chief and two others ventured into the tomb with me who were evidently accustomed to such dreadful explorations and managed to take the lid of the sarcophagus without breaking it and wondered at it for such good luck, they said, that they did not attend to such efforts and I treated the various furnishings of the tomb with so little interest that, only on account of their great strength and thickness, the coffin itself might have had wounds