I told him that I was interrupted by a change of nurses, just as I had come to the description of the ring.

He smiled as he said: "So far as that is concerned, you need not be disappointed.

Not in Van Huyn's time, nor for nearly two centuries later, could the meaning of that engraving have been understood.

It was only when the work was taken up and followed by Young and Champollion, by Birch and Lepsius and Rosellini and Salvolini, by Mariette Bey and by Wallis Budge and Flinders Petrie and the other scholars of their times that great results ensued, and that the true meaning of hieroglyphic was known.
"Later, I shall explain to you, if Mr.Trelawny does not explain it himself, or if he does not forbid me to, what it means in that particular place.

I think it will be better for you to know what followed Van Huyn's narrative; for with the description of the stone, and the account of his bringing it to Holland at the termination of his travels, the episode ends.