A pilgrimage to the temples and tombs of Egypt, Nubia, and ...

106 EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES.
nearly one thousand years before the Christian
era. Doctor A. himself discovered Shishak*s
oval on one of the plates of the armour, so
that its genuineness is incontrovertible — but
were I to specify all the wonders his collection
contains, my letter would be endless ; and as
I have been twice summoned to dinner within
the last minute, I must herewith close it, and
bid you farewell until I address you from the
Nile.