After dinner we went on, stayed the night on the
island Hobi, and came the next morning early to
Ben Naga. Here we first visited the ruins of two
little temples, of which the west one had Typhon
columns instead of pillars, but showed no writing
on its few remains ; in the other eastern one there
were a few sculptures preserved on the low wall,
and writing on a few round pillars, but too little
that anything connected might be gathered from it.
Excavations might probably discover royal names ;
but such an attempt is only possible on our return.
Some camels were procured for the next morn-
ing, and I rode off with Abeken, Erbkam, and
Maximilian Weidenbach at nine o'clock for Naga.
So are the ruins of a city and several temples
named, which lie in the eastern wilderness, at a
distance of seven or eight hours from the Nile
From our landing-place, near the only palm group
of the whole region, we only wanted half an hour
to the village of Ben Naga, which lies in Wadi
Teresib. One hour eastward, down the river (for it
flows from west to east here), the ruins are situated,
where we had landed the day before, in the Wadi
el Kirbeg&n ; we now passed them on the left, and
rode south-east into the wilderness, sparely grown
with dry underwood, crossed the valley El Kir-
beg&n, which stretches hither from the river, and
m which we found a camp of Abltbde Arabs.
