I had never seen such a disgusting sight.
All hopes of rest on the divan were now effectually put to flight.
I sat down on a chair, and waited until every thing was perfectly still; then I slipped into the entrance-hall, and lay down on the stones, wrapped in my cloak.
Though I had escaped from one description of vermin, I became a prey to innumerable gnats.

I had passed many uncomfortable nights during my journey, but this was worse than any thing I had yet endured.
However, this was only an additional inducement for rising early, and long before sunrise I was ready to continue my journey.

Before daybreak I took leave of my kind host, and rode with my servant towards the gigantic structures.

To-day we were again obliged frequently to go out of our route on account of the rising of the Nile; owing to this delay, two hours elapsed before we reached the broad arm of the Nile, dividing us from the Libyan desert, on which the Pyramids stand, and over which two Arabs carried me.

This was one of the most disagreeable things that can be imagined.