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great mastabah. There were also in it utensils
for cooking, hung over the fire-pots, and around
them were many bones. But we saw not there
any person ; and we wondered at that extremely.
We sat in the open space in that pavilion a
little while, after which we slept; and we ceased
not to sleep from near the mid-time between sun-
rise and noon until sunset. And, lo, the earth
trembled beneath us, and we heard a confused
noise from the upper air, and there descended
upon us, from the summit of the pavilion, a
person of enormous size, in human form, and
he was of black complexion, of lofty stature, like
a great palm-tree: he had two eyes like two
blazes of fire, and tusks like the tusks of swine,
and a mouth of prodigious size, like the mouth of
a well, and lips like the lips of the camel, hanging
down upon his bosom, and he had ears like two
mortars, hanging down upon his shoulders, and
the nails of his hands were like the claws of the
lion. So when we beheld him thus, we became
unconscious of our existence, our fear was vehe-
ment, and our terror was violent, and through
the violence of our fear and dread and terror we
became as dead men. And after he had de-
scended upon the ground, he sat a little while
upon the mastabah. Then he arose and came