Born at Padua--Is designed for the monastic life--Studies at
Rome--Hydraulics--Invasion of Italy by the French--Alters his plan
of life--Departs from Rome--Arrives in England--Marries--Remains
nine years in Great Britain--Travels through the south of
Europe--Malta--Arrives in Egypt--Enters into the service of
the pasha--Constructs an hydraulic machine--View from the
Pyramids--Is near being murdered by a soldier--Rebellion of
the janizaries--Quits the service of the pasha--Undertakes
the removal of the Memnon’s head--Ascends the Nile--Arrives
at Thebes--Magnificence of the ruins--Establishes himself
in the Memnonium--Removes the head to the Nile--Visits the
Necropolis at Gournon--Loses himself in the sepulchres--Horrors
of the tombs--Proceeds to Assouan--His boat attacked on the
Nile--Reaches Deir--Temple of Ipsambul--Ignorance of the
Nubians--Use of money--Returns to Thebes--Embarks the head of
Memnon--Antiquarians--Is shot at in the ruins of Thebes--Descends
the Nile to Rosetta--Mr. Briggs--Returns to Cairo, and thence
again to Thebes--Mummy-pits--Decay of the mummies--Proceeds to
Ipsambul--Opens the temple--Sepulchres of the kings--Alabaster
sarcophagus--Visits the emerald mines on the Red Sea--Returns
to Cairo--Visits the Oasis of Jupiter Ammon--Returns to
England--Publishes his travels--Proceeds again to Africa--Dies 327