Director of theS ervice des A ntiquites in Egypt consists in au annual inspection of the monuments. From 1881 to 188G, the period of my first sojourn in Egypt, a steamboat, theM enchich, was put at my disposalS he was better known to the riverside population by the name of Nmro Hadwhm, No. 11. She was a flat-bottomed brigantine, provided with an engine of a type archaic enough to deserve tu place in theM useum of Arts and Crafts From 1840 to 1800 she had regularly performed the journey to and fro between Alexandria arid Cairo once a month. She was then invalided on account of old age, but was again put into working order for the visit of Prince Napoleon toE gypt in 1863, In 1875 she was presented toM ariette, and after a long period of inaction, descended to me, and 1made my journeys in her for five years. My successors, however, did not preserve her, and on my return I found a princely old dahabieh, the JM mam, which 1have used ever since.
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