TAA i.2.3.9

(Oct. 9. Continued)

appliances and facilities cannot be obtained, much prearrangement
and consideration is required - mostly in simplifying one's requirements,
or adapting the materials available. Even with material
one has especially ordered from England or elsewhere, when
examined on the spot, often you find that it proves a
little too large or small as the case may be, or that it has
to be got into working order as well as the men taught how
to use it - a tedious and what appears a waste of time before
one can start upon the real and interesting part of the work of
an archaeologist. It is thus one spends the first few days
of <in preparation for> a new season's work, only brightened by the smiles upon the
faces of the Reises when they first realize the use & advantage
of some new gadget to help them in the forthcoming work.

10^th

Commenced opening Tomb with 20 <25> men and fifty <75> boys.

Shaban Effendi arrived at Valley.

11^th

With an extra amount of carriers the work of covering the Tomb
entrance advanced rapidly and was completed today - thus
enabling us to make an inspection of the interior tomorrow.
Considering the heat and the amount of the ma rubbish
that covered the entrance - put there at the termination of
last season's work - the Reises and workmen have carried
out this piece of work in a quick and thoroughly efficient
manner, for which they deserve great praise.

Sent the chauffeur into Luxor to put in order the old car
of past season's, ready for sale, I having purchased a new ca
and brought with me a new car, for fear the old one would
not carry through the season.

It will be interesting to see what effect the odours and insecticide
such as coarse petroleum sprinkled in both the tomb and the laboratory before