ABSTRACT
WHEN the work of clearing the temple at Serabit el Khadem was nearly completed, a Bedawy returned from Suez with less than half of the supplies that he had been ordered to bring, and so we had to start two or three days earlier than we had intended, in order not to be short of food. Some time before, it had been arranged that I should go to the monastery of St. Catharine, on behalf of the Egyptian Research Account, to dig over the rubbish heaps, and Mr. Frost and I therefore started at once. Yusuf, the son of the Ababdeh sheykh, hurried on to Tor, in order that he might meet us at the monastery with more provisions. Professor Petrie kept a third of the men to finish the work at the temple.
