Robbed In A Pyramid

Dr. James J. Mills of Baltimore made ! a visit to Europa aud Egypt. He passed Í tbrongh an experieuce that was as un pleasant as it was novel - that of being held up aud robbod withiu the glooniy and ruusty walls of the greut pyrainid I of Cheops, by the Nile. Discussing the i trip, Dr. Mills said : "If I had to live in a foreign city, it would eithor be Paris or Cairo. Cairo is unlike any other city in the world. Thero is a strangeniiugling cf the white faces of the Greeks with the inky black faces of the Nubians aud Sudanese and the yellow skinned Arabs, who constitute tbe bulk of the population. Of course I wanted to visit the pyramids, and I undertook to do it without being accoinpaijied by a dragomán. Against the advi.ce of friends, I set out ou the back of a donkey, with no attendant save the donkey boy. As the boy could speak no English and I conld speak no Arabian, we did not talk nrach. "We were followed out of Cairo by a swarm of beggars, whose only cry was 'Backsheesh, backsheesb. ' When we reached the vicinity of the pyramids, we were met by a horde of Arabs, who could speak but a few words of broken Euglish. They volnutered to take mo inside the pyramid. With two of the wild looking sous of the desert we entered the great pyramid of Cbeops, rle6cending leng, gloomy passages, passing the brink of an euormous well, traversing a footway which led along by the toinbs of onmeroüs dead and up a narrow passageway with a floor as emooth as glass. "Here the ascent was so steep that it was necessary for oue Arab to go in front acil pull me along, while the other came behüid and pushed. When we reached the end of this pat-sageway, we eat down to rest. Tbe atinosphere was stifiing, whiie myriads of blaak bats flew clumsily about and gaVe an unoanny appearance to the place. It was then that iny two Arab guides began to think of 'backsheesh' and ask in English, which I could understaud painfully well, how much money I had. It was no place to argue with them, for if they had left me there I might have been thero yet. "I tried to make them think that I did not understand, but the result of it all was that they tnrned my pockets inside out and took ail the money I had. Then they piloted ine out in great glee and told ïue that I was a 'valy glud man. ' I got back to Cairo as soon as I could, and there my friends told me I mieht have well exnected to have been robbed. ' '-