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Thus
it
was
,
that
at
the
very
time
when
Mr.
Trelawny
,
who
,
in
making
his
great
collection
of
works
on
Egypt
,
had
,
through
a
booksellers
'
catalogue
,
acquired
this
volume
with
the
manuscript
translation
,
was
studying
it
,
I
was
reading
another
copy
,
in
original
Dutch
,
in
Leyden
.
We
were
both
struck
by
the
description
of
the
lonely
tomb
in
the
rock
;
cut
so
high
up
as
to
be
inaccessible
to
ordinary
seekers
:
with
all
means
of
reaching
it
carefully
obliterated
;
and
yet
with
such
an
elaborate
ornamentation
of
the
smoothed
surface
of
the
cliff
as
Van
Huyn
has
described
.
It
also
struck
us
both
as
an
odd
thing
--
for
in
the
years
between
Van
Huyn
's
time
and
our
own
the
general
knowledge
of
Egyptian
curios
and
records
has
increased
marvellously
--
that
in
the
case
of
such
a
tomb
,
made
in
such
a
place
,
and
which
must
have
cost
an
immense
sum
of
money
,
there
was
no
seeming
record
or
effigy
to
point
out
who
lay
within
.
Moreover
,
the
very
name
of
the
place
,
'
the
Valley
of
the
Sorcerer
'
,
had
,
in
a
prosaic
age
,
attractions
of
its
own
.
When
we
met
,
which
we
did
through
his
seeking
the
assistance
of
other
Egyptologists
in
his
work
,
we
talked
over
this
as
we
did
over
many
other
things
;
and
we
determined
to
make
search
for
the
mysterious
valley
.
Whilst
we
were
waiting
to
start
on
the
travel
,
for
many
things
were
required
which
Mr.
Trelawny
undertook
to
see
to
himself
,
I
went
to
Holland
to
try
if
I
could
by
any
traces
verify
Van
Huyn
's
narrative
.
I
went
straight
to
Hoorn
,
and
set
patiently
to
work
to
find
the
house
of
the
traveller
and
his
descendants
,
if
any
.
I
need
not
trouble
you
with
details
of
my
seeking
--
and
finding
.
Hoorn
is
a
place
that
has
not
changed
much
since
Van
Huyn
's
time
,
except
that
it
has
lost
the
place
which
it
held
amongst
commercial
cities
.
Its
externals
are
such
as
they
had
been
then
;
in
such
a
sleepy
old
place
a
century
or
two
does
not
count
for
much
.
I
found
the
house
,
and
discovered
that
none
of
the
descendants
were
alive
.
I
searched
records
;
but
only
to
one
end
--
death
and
extinction
.
Then
I
set
me
to
work
to
find
what
had
become
of
his
treasures
;
for
that
such
a
traveller
must
have
had
great
treasures
was
apparent
.
I
traced
a
good
many
to
museums
in
Leyden
,
Utrecht
,
and
Amsterdam
;
and
some
few
to
the
private
houses
of
rich
collectors
.
At
last
,
in
the
shop
of
an
old
watchmaker
and
jeweller
at
Hoorn
,
I
found
what
he
considered
his
chiefest
treasure
;
a
great
ruby
,
carven
like
a
scarab
,
with
seven
stars
,
and
engraven
with
hieroglyphics
.
The
old
man
did
not
know
hieroglyphic
character
,
and
in
his
old-world
,
sleepy
life
,
the
philological
discoveries
of
recent
years
had
not
reached
him
.
He
did
not
know
anything
of
Van
Huyn
,
except
that
such
a
person
had
been
,
and
that
his
name
was
,
during
two
centuries
,
venerated
in
the
town
as
a
great
traveller
.
He
valued
the
jewel
as
only
a
rare
stone
,
spoiled
in
part
by
the
cutting
;
and
though
he
was
at
first
loth
to
part
with
such
an
unique
gem
,
he
became
amenable
ultimately
to
commercial
reason
.
I
had
a
full
purse
,
since
I
bought
for
Mr.
Trelawny
,
who
is
,
as
I
suppose
you
know
,
immensely
wealthy
I
was
shortly
on
my
way
back
to
London
,
with
the
Star
Ruby
safe
in
my
pocket-book
;
and
in
my
heart
a
joy
and
exultation
which
knew
no
bounds
.
"
For
here
we
were
with
proof
of
Van
Huyn
's
wonderful
story
.
The
jewel
was
put
in
security
in
Mr.
Trelawny
's
great
safe
;
and
we
started
out
on
our
journey
of
exploration
in
full
hope
.
"
Mr.
Trelawny
was
,
at
the
last
,
loth
to
leave
his
young
wife
whom
he
dearly
loved
;
but
she
,
who
loved
him
equally
,
knew
his
longing
to
prosecute
the
search
.
So
keeping
to
herself
,
as
all
good
women
do
,
all
her
anxieties
--
which
in
her
case
were
special
--
she
bade
him
follow
out
his
bent
.
"
"
Mr.
Trelawny
's
hope
was
at
least
as
great
as
my
own
.
He
is
not
so
volatile
a
man
as
I
am
,
prone
to
ups
and
downs
of
hope
and
despair
;
but
he
has
a
fixed
purpose
which
crystallises
hope
into
belief
.
At
times
I
had
feared
that
there
might
have
been
two
such
stones
,
or
that
the
adventures
of
Van
Huyn
were
traveller
's
fictions
,
based
on
some
ordinary
acquisition
of
the
curio
in
Alexandria
or
Cairo
,
or
London
or
Amsterdam
.
But
Mr.
Trelawny
never
faltered
in
his
belief
.
We
had
many
things
to
distract
our
minds
from
belief
or
disbelief
.
This
was
soon
after
Arabi
Pasha
,
and
Egypt
was
so
safe
place
for
travellers
,
especially
if
they
were
English
.
But
Mr.
Trelawny
is
a
fearless
man
;
and
I
almost
come
to
think
at
times
that
I
am
not
a
coward
myself
.
We
got
together
a
band
of
Arabs
whom
one
or
other
of
us
had
known
in
former
trips
to
the
desert
,
and
whom
we
could
trust
;
that
is
,
we
did
not
distrust
them
as
much
as
others
.
We
were
numerous
enough
to
protect
ourselves
from
chance
marauding
bands
,
and
we
took
with
us
large
impedimenta
.
We
had
secured
the
consent
and
passive
co-operation
of
the
officials
still
friendly
to
Britain
;
in
the
acquiring
of
which
consent
I
need
hardly
say
that
Mr.
Trelawny
's
riches
were
of
chief
importance
.
We
found
our
way
in
dhahabiyehs
to
Aswan
;
whence
,
having
got
some
Arabs
from
the
Sheik
and
having
given
our
usual
backsheesh
,
we
set
out
on
our
journey
through
the
desert
.
"
Well
,
after
much
wandering
and
trying
every
winding
in
the
interminable
jumble
of
hills
,
we
came
at
last
at
nightfall
on
just
such
a
valley
as
Van
Huyn
had
described
.
A
valley
with
high
,
steep
cliffs
;
narrowing
in
the
centre
,
and
widening
out
to
the
eastern
and
western
ends
.
At
daylight
we
were
opposite
the
cliff
and
could
easily
note
the
opening
high
up
in
the
rock
,
and
the
hieroglyphic
figures
which
were
evidently
intended
originally
to
conceal
it
.
"
But
the
signs
which
had
baffled
Van
Huyn
and
those
of
his
time
--
and
later
,
were
no
secrets
to
us
.
The
host
of
scholars
who
have
given
their
brains
and
their
lives
to
this
work
,
had
wrested
open
the
mysterious
prison-house
of
Egyptian
language
.
On
the
hewn
face
of
the
rocky
cliff
we
,
who
had
learned
the
secrets
,
could
read
what
the
Theban
priesthood
had
had
there
inscribed
nearly
fifty
centuries
before
.
"
For
that
the
external
inscription
was
the
work
of
the
priesthood
--
and
a
hostile
priesthood
at
that
--
there
could
be
no
living
doubt
.
The
inscription
on
the
rock
,
written
in
hieroglyphic
,
ran
thus
:
"
'
Hither
the
Gods
come
not
at
any
summons
.
The
"
Nameless
One
"
has
insulted
them
and
is
for
ever
alone
.
Go
not
nigh
,
lest
their
vengeance
wither
you
away
!
'
