Then with our heavy baggage, we set out on our laborious journey back to the Nile.

It was no easy task, I tell you, to bring the case with that great sarcophagus over the desert.

We had a rough cart and sufficient men to draw it; but the progress seemed terribly slow, for we were anxious to get our treasures into a place of safety.

The night was an anxious time with us, for we feared attack from some marauding band.

But more still we feared some of those with us.