We were both struck by the description of the lonely tomb in the rock; cut so high up as to be inaccessible to ordinary seekers: with all means of reaching it carefully obliterated; and yet with such an elaborate ornamentation of the smoothed surface of the cliff as Van Huyn has described.

It also struck us both as an odd thing--for in the years between Van Huyn's time and our own the general knowledge of Egyptian curios and records has increased marvellously--that in the case of such a tomb, made in such a place, and which must have cost an immense sum of money, there was no seeming record or effigy to point out who lay within.

Moreover, the very name of the place, 'the Valley of the Sorcerer', had, in a prosaic age, attractions of its own.

When we met, which we did through his seeking the assistance of other Egyptologists in his work, we talked over this as we did over many other things; and we determined to make search for the mysterious valley.

Whilst we were waiting to start on the travel, for many things were required which Mr.Trelawny undertook to see to himself, I went to Holland to try if I could by any traces verify Van Huyn's narrative.