Chapter 66

And I could not sense how different it was and it must have been the scene that met the eyes of the Dutch traveler when he looked inside and found that a white hand was lying livid-like on top of the mummy's draped cloth. It is true that part of the arm was there (white as ivory) but there was excitement to us and Who did not come to Van Huen! The end of the wrist was covered in drops of blood! As if the body had bled after death! The jagged ends of the broken wrist were jagged with clotted blood; Through this white bone which sticks out and looks like a matrix of opals and the blood flows downward and stains the brown coverings as with rust and here was the full confirmation of the narrative with such evidence of the truth of the narrator before us that we could not doubt the other things he said, such as the blood On the mummy's hand, or the marks of the seven fingers on the sheikh's choked throat.

And I will not bore you with the details of all that we saw or