I was obliged to learn it according to Tuki, Peyron, Tattam, and Steinthal-Schwarze.

For the hieratic there was no aid save my own industry and the lists I had myself compiled from the scanty texts then at the disposal of the student.

Lepsius had never devoted much time to them.

Brugsch's demotic grammar had appeared, but its use was rendered very difficult by the lack of conformity between the type and the actual signs.] When I recall the amount of knowledge I mastered in a few terms it seems incredible; yet my labour was interrupted every summer by a sojourn at the springs--once three months, and never for a less period than six weeks.

True, I was never wholly idle while using the waters, but, on the other hand, I was obliged to consider the danger that in winter constantly threatened my health.