CHAPTER XXI.

THEBES.

Luxor Again--Imitation “Anteekahs”--Digging for Mummies--Tombs of Thebes--The Ramesseum--The Granite Colossus--Medinet Habu--The Pavilion of Rameses III--The Great Chronicle--An Arab Story-teller--Gournah--Bab el Molûk--The Shadowless Valley of Death--The Tombs of the Kings--Stolen Goods--The French House--An Arab Dinner and Fantasia--The Coptic Church at Luxor--A Coptic Service--A Coptic Bishop 370