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                                                                 ASSOUAN     March 3^rd.

          It seems a long while since

the day of the opening, but it 

might be as well to get my impressions 

on paper to keep as a record.

          In the first place, we scored a 

great triumph over the newspaper 

men. They for some reason had got 

it into their heads that we were 

going to make a secret opening without 

any representative of the Government being 

present, so for three or four days they 

hardly left the tomb. On the Friday 

they had no idea anything was up. 

We fixed it for the afternoon so that 

the tourists would be out of the way. 

Sir William Garstin and two or three 

others came to join our lunch party,

but they came straight, so were not 

seen arriving. After lunch we met by 

appointment, Lacau, Engelbach,