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like the asphaltum I have sometimes seen for roofing.
Went into one of the houses that looked cleaner than the rest - in an inner room were clean mats on the floor & a blue garment which had evidently been slept under last night.
The floor was neatly sprinkled with the yellow sand of the desert, & the mud walls were arched up somewhat pointed to the top leaving only a narrow opening there for the thatch - along each side wall were 4 or 5 mud brick brackets.
The room might have been 12 ft. [feet] sq. [square] & was very neat.
D. bought for us 2 rings of brass & [im.?] coral.
[Reis] Our dahabeah had been rowed & [allowed to] floated down the river, reached it 10.30.
11.45 - The Lotus comes along side & the oars of our two dahabeahs actually [lap?] into each other as they row.
At noon stopped at Dendoor [Dendur] & a few minutes walk brought us to the temple part of the low wall of enclosure is standing also the pylon without any towers [walls], the entrance hall is in a ruinous state & the sculptures are in the decline of art - the hieroglyphs are generally raised & saw the serpent twined above the head of a woman (not on it).
On the top bought a fine scarabeus.
This is the last ruin in the torrid zone.
A young Englishman there said the tropic of Cancer ran through it.
Saw the serpent twining around the staff.
Over an entrance were the extended wings with the sun & asps in the centre & directly above it another set of extended wings with a scarabius in the centre.
A very gusty afternoon - sky cold & cloudy, looking as it does early in our November.
Many of the fields are just ready for the sickle.
6 P.M. arrive at Kalabshed & moor just