“Exactly,” said his uncle. “Now you know where he comes from.”
“I never thought Saghatherium was just a coney,” said the boy. “I saw a coney in the Zoo at Cairo, when you were arranging about this trip. He was a fierce little chap, but nothing like as large as our fossil at home.”
Courtesy of American Museum of Natural History.
At the Temple of Qasr-el-Sagha.
Museum Expedition in Egypt, starting out for camp, two days’ camel journey from water.
Courtesy of American Museum of Natural History.
Across the Libyan Desert.
The Museum party on the sunburned stony plain. Note four pyramids in distance, at extreme right.