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Show Photographing tho Tomb of Ram cue. Not a ray of sunshine ever entered the mysterious apartment which holds It. Magnesium light was employed to secure its photograph. Eight Bedouins were 'posted inside and around it, with an uplifted up-lifted taper of burning magnesium in each hand. Three cameras, largo and small, wero focussctl, lu order to Increase the chances of success. A wilder, more weird sight I never witnessed. Tho dark skins of tho Arabs, with their white robes shining in tho brilliant light; thelrexcited yells; their stampeding whenever a bit of hot oxide chanced to fall npon their bare shoulders or feet, and tho intense glare of the burning metal, all gave tho scene an infernal realism which needed no fanciful Salvator Hosa to paint it or Dante to make it more horrible. More than once, with the fear of failure staring me in the face, I grappled with my dusky helpers as they fled trom tho chamber. Although half stifled by the fumes of the burning metal, ngaiu and again I forced them back to their posts. At last American Ameri-can magnesium and the Yankee camera were victorious and brought three pictures of the coffer out to the light, so that all might guess what it is. January Scrib-ner's. |