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upon it by his chief; Dr。 Birch; and he said it belonged to the Ptolemaic Period and came from Akhmim in Upper Egypt。 Ingram bought it in Luxor; and was said to have carried it off without paying what the native wanted for it。 The native ran after the boat along the bank for miles; and cursed Ingram with all his might in the name of Allah。 Among the inscriptions on the coffin were extracts from a funerary work; and the copy of it in the British Museum had a curse attached。 The curse declared that the man who stole the work; or burnt it; or buried it; or drowned it; should be blotted out; his body and seed destroyed for ever; etc。 During a shooting tour in Somaliland Ingram shot at a huge she…elephant with buck…shot and enraged the beast。 He fired again; and the elephant pursued him among the palms; and finally caught him with her trunk and lifted him into the air and dashed him limb from limb。 Then she found the trunk and trod it with her feet to a pulp。 Sir Henry Meux; who was of the party; collected the remains; put them in a box and buried them; but a few days later the box was washed out of its bed; and the party decided to carry it to the sea…coast。 Before Ingram left England he gave the mummy — which he had agreed to sell to the British Museum — to Lady Meux of Theobalds Park; who placed it in her Egyptian collection。 There it lay for several years; and Lady Meux used to go the museum every day and pray by the side of the case containing it。 Budge published a full d

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