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You have to climb up a little way to get to the opening which is only a small hole and then you go in a long way through a narrow passage and you have to double right up.
After a bit you get to a wall which is very high and narrow, the guide lit some magnesium wire to show me (and made me pay 2 1/2 Pts.) then we started to climb up a narrow passage of polished marble, as slippery as glass, you have got to hold the guide's hand and you feel you want to wash yours for a week afterwards.
When you get near the end of the passage you it gets bigger and you can see where mummies we taken out of the walls and then you go through a narrow passage again to the Kings chamber. His name is up on the wall just before you go into the passage.
The kings chamber is right in the centre of the Pyramid and is a tremendously high and big place, the guide lit some more magnesium to show me (another 2 ½ P).
The ventilation is the wonderful thing – the air is quite fresh in there and there is a passage for it to come it on the other side from where we came. The guide explained to me how it worked but I could not understand him.
In the middle there is a big stone vault where the king's mummie was. There are tremendous big granite stones in the walls of this chamber; there is no mortor between them and one tremendous stone runs right along one wall and they say weighs 40 tons.
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P.S.
Will you send my sub for the Fortian.
You are supposed to pay in advance & I think I owe for last year but it is only 1/6 a year. I would like to have it sent to me just to see the list of chaps who have come. Mr Yarnold sent me his paper before I left. I suppose I ought to subscribe to it, that's 1/- a year I think.
I expect that he would like my name for the list too.
The boys & Aunt Katie might like to hear about the Pyramids & I could not write another account so you can send them this if you like.