Footsteps of another ghrazzu of seven had been seen in the plain. In these days M. Aly would have me no more adventure out of sight from the kella: he forbad the gate Arabs to accompany me, ferociously threatening, Wellah, that the lives of them should be for mine: which he said in few days would be required of himself by Mohammed Saîd Pasha.

There remained a single frontispice crag, one of the last outlying monuments, which (since one might climb to the inscription without the ladder-beam) had been left hitherto. I had with difficulty M. Aly's licence to make a last excursion thither with a sure and sheykhly poor man of the Fejîr, Mohammed ed-Deybis, a near kinsman of Zeyd's. My companion's eyes watched all round earnestly as we went, for said he “I must answer for thee, and I am in dread of these ghrazzus!” When the paper prints were long a-drying, for this sepulchre looks to the north, I had leisure to visit the charnel within;— and the monument alone were a sufficient example of all that may be seen at Medáin Sâlih!

Without is a single inscription tablet, which was engraved already when all the lower hewn architecture was yet to begin. The funeral chamber is fully perfected within as a long used burying place: here are loculi, sepulchral cells and sunken sepulchres, and an inner sepulchral chamber; but the fronti spice was only half ended in their time and has remained abandoned.