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

204 GHEBEL ADDEH.
CHAPTER X.
GHEBEL ADDEH. TEMPLES OF IBSAMBOUL. DERR. A NUBIAN
PALACE. A NUBIAN PRINCE A NUBIAN HAREEM. HIGH
LIFE IN NUBIA.
Ibsamboul, Dec. 2, 1845.
We left Wadi Haifa at day-break yesterday,
in the hope of being able to reach Ibsamboul
early enough to see the temples before dark
but the wind was so strong against us that we
were obliged to go down the stream sideways,
and progressed so slowly as to find it impos-
sible to effect our wishes. We stopped at a
place called Ghebel Add eh on the eastern
bank, where there is a small temple, or rather
Speos, excavated in the rock, and attributed
by Champollion to the best period of Egyptian
architecture (the eighteenth dynasty), but we
found little either to admire or to wonder at
there. It is extremely small, and in a rude
unfinished style, and its original embellishments
have been overlaid by some hideous paintings
;