Needless to say, we were excited as we looked within.

There must, however, be one sense of disappointment.

I could not help feeling how different must have been the sight which met the Dutch traveller's eyes when he looked within and found that white hand lying lifelike above the shrouding mummy cloths.

It is true that a part of the arm was there, white and ivory like.
"But there was a thrill to us which came not to Van Huyn! "The end of the wrist was covered with dried blood! It was as though the body had bled after death! The jagged ends of the broken wrist were rough with the clotted blood; through this the white bone, sticking out, looked like the matrix of opal.

The blood had streamed down and stained the brown wrappings as with rust.