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with the usual promise's of rich girls who were only waiting for your return, so as you could marry them & be happy for the rest of your life, besides these two classe's of swindlers there were scores of orange & pea nut sellers, all on the same game, droves of beggars, demanding backsheesh of course we like asses threw a few piastres towards them, & from then on were followed by a crowd of dirty stinking Arabs, & you could not shake them off, the next pest was the man with the camels & donkeys, who for a ride of about 200 yards asked the modest sum of 7 piastres, however we got through this mob & had a look at the Sphinx, it is a truly wonderful piece of sculpture, it has the face
of a man, I should call it, the breasts of a woman, & the body of a lion laying down with its feet in front, it is a most enomorous thing & it has a piece knocked off its nose where Napoleon had a shot at it with a field gun. We next wanted our guide to take us into the pyramids to see the old tombs but he wanted 2/- more from each of us, for that, we had a job to keep our hands off him, so we told him to go to Hell, he then demanded 5 piastres each for these little scarabs he had given us previously, he made a mistake this time, for we threatened him with a thousand deaths if he did not do a get as fast as ever he could, he started to argue & shout but I made a jump towards him