Despite the bad taste left in my mouth throughout various passages, I feel that the importance of the work comes from the many beautiful and exacting descriptions of the sites and the many illustrations. But there was a solemn secrecy about certain of the Arabs, and a conscious look about some of the visitors, and an air of awakened vigilance about the government officials, which savoured of mystery. Some, worn at the base, and towering like ruined pyramids above, remind us of tombs on the Appian Way. Behind a broken column, for instance, that leans against the south west wall of the sanctuary, 26 one may see, by peeping this way and that, the ram's-head prow of a sacred boat, quite unharmed, and of surpassing delicacy. The joy is as fresh as when first felt, and the reader feels privileged to share these experiences with her.

Mustapha Aga entertained all the English dahabeeyahs, and all the English dahabeeyahs entertained Mustapha Aga.The original text is complimented by colour images of Amelia's artwork made during or shortly after her travels, which have only previously been reproduced as black and white engravings. Keeping this mountain always before us, we now follow the windings of the second valley, which is even more narrow, parched, and glaring than the first. We had so long been the sport of destiny, that we hardly knew what to make of our good fortune when two days of sweet south wind carried us from Edfu to Luxor. She had so many details, insights, and enthusiasm for all she saw that I felt I had experienced it with her on her many months long trip in 1873.

The priest then came forward and made a sign to the school children, who ran up noisily from all parts of the church, and joined with the choristers in a wild kind of chant.We were invited to several fantasias at the Consulate, and dined with Mustapha Aga at his suburban house the evening before we left Luxor. Two of the windows in the wings are adorned with balconies supported on brackets; each bracket representing the head and shoulders of a crouching captive, in the attitude of a gargoyle. Edwards' travels in Egypt had made her aware of the increasing threat directed towards the ancient monuments by tourism and modern development.