UTILISING THE PHAEAOHS.

Southland Times, Issue 1253, 20 May 1870, Page 3

UTILISING THE PHAEAOHS.

i Such odd things are happening here. I Mutton fattened on Ancient Egyptians ! i It's a fact — a horse chesnut is not a ches- . nut horse, but, by a sort of sorites in- , verted, we may arrive at the idea of a gigot which shall consist in the great part » of the dwellers in Memphis. The other ; day at Sakhara I saw nine camels pacing i down from the mummy pits to the bank , of the river laden with nets, in which ■ were femora, tibia, and other bony bits of the human form, some 2 cwt. in each net ' on each side of the camel. Among the • pits there were people busily engaged in searching out, sifting, and sorting the bones which almost crust the ground. ; On enquiry, I learnt that the cargoes i with which the camels were laden would i be sent down to Alexandria, and tlfence i be shipped to English manure manui facturers. They make excellent manure, i I was told, particularly for swedes and other turnips. The trade is brisk, and has been going on for years, and may goon for many more. It is a strange fate— to preserve one's skeleton for thousands of years in order that there may be fine Southdowns and Cheviots in a distant land! But Egypt is always a place of wonders. — Times' Correspondent. [