and Imlac shall follow you. Remember that you are the companion of
the Princess of Abyssinia."

"If the Princess is pleased that her servant should die," returned
the lady, "let her command some death less dreadful than enclosure
in this horrid cavern. You know I dare not disobey you--I must go
if you command me; but if I once enter, I never shall come back."

The Princess saw that her fear was too strong for expostulation or
reproof, and, embracing her, told her that she should stay in the
tent till their return. Pekuah was not yet satisfied, but
entreated the Princess not to pursue so dreadful a purpose as that
of entering the recesses of the Pyramids. "Though I cannot teach
courage," said Nekayah, "I must not learn cowardice, nor leave at
last undone what I came hither only to do."



CHAPTER XXXII--THEY ENTER THE PYRAMID.



Pekuah descended to the tents, and the rest entered the Pyramid.
They passed through the galleries, surveyed the vaults of marble,
and examined the chest in which the body of the founder is supposed
to have been deposited. They then sat down in one of the most
spacious chambers to rest awhile before they attempted to return.

"We have now," said Imlac, "gratified our minds with an exact view
of the greatest work of man, except the wall of China.