![]() ![]() She had enjoyed an excellent education in England, spoke and wroteĮnglish with extraordinary refinement, mastered in addition French, Italian and Arabic, and I knew her personally later as a grown young woman and learned toĮsteem her mind highly. ![]() On his journeys to the upper land, he used to be accompanied by a young full blooded Negress Time and the name Harris was on everyone's lips. Both finds deserved sensation in the scientific world at that ![]() One contained the speeches of the Greek orator Hyperides, the other On the body of one of them he discovered two voluminous papyrus rolls with Mummies, opposite the town of Monfalut in Upper Egypt, he came upon embalmed humanĬorpses, which had found their last resting-place, no one knows for what reason, in the midst of Thus on his visit to a cave full of crocodile Luck was extraordinarily favorable to him in this. Ship to Upper Egypt and to acquire antiquities of all sorts, above all, valuable Greek andĮgyptian papyrus at, incidentally, exceedingly low prices. Harris permitted him, year after year, to take a winter trip on his own Nile Rolls, particularly Harris Number 1, in the collections of the British Museum in London. Harris, was at that time, already well known to me, although itīecame truly remembered only later in connection with the highly celebrated Egyptian papyrus Magdeburg, who had just returned from a business trip to Syria and Egypt, looked me up inīerlin in order to bring me the greetings of an English resident of this city who had settled inĪlexandria. It was toward the end of the year 1851 when a Herr Reuter, a German merchant from Heinrich Brugsch | My Life and My Travels | Chapter 3 | First Journey To Egypt My Life and My Travels by Heinrich Brugsch, 1894, Berlin ![]()
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