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time to be entirely at the service of anyone. The plan, which worked very smoothly, was that I drew on my two friends for all the costs of workmen and transport, while I paid all my expenses. In return, we equally divided all that came to
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recognition of his generosity, and of his position as one of the first patrons of scientific excavation in Egypt, The
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