They dragged us up a long inclined chute, and dripped candle-grease all over us.

This chute was not more than twice as wide and high as a Saratoga trunk, and was walled, roofed and floored with solid blocks of Egyptian granite as wide as a wardrobe, twice as thick and three times as long.

We kept on climbing, through the oppressive gloom, till I thought we ought to be nearing the top of the pyramid again, and then came to the "Queen's Chamber," and shortly to the Chamber of the King.

These large apartments were tombs.

The walls were built of monstrous masses of smoothed granite, neatly joined together.