[Dialogue]
Uh, hello?
Hello?
Uh, thanks everybody for coming today
We're gonna get started
A few, um, a few of you have come heard this guy before
He obviously needs no introduction
He comes all the way from, uh, England?
Yeah, England
And he's going to be talking to us today about his Egypt and Egyptology, uh, discoveries
Over in Egypt
And he'll be, uh, here, well, he's here now
So without further ado, let's hear it for Dr... uh, Dr. Dumblucke?
Dumblucke
Thank you
[Dialogue: Dr. Dumblucke]
Mummification!
Of course I've, I've had- of course we all know
In-in my books, the first and second one, deal quite plain with it
Of course you know, you look at me you're saying
"Yes, this is a man who knows about mummification
That's why we're here, that's why we're talking"
Now my first experience in it is, as those of you might have read in your pamphlets, is
When I'd come in, we were doing a bit
We were doing a bit of fuel study at the temple at Karnak
Karnak, lovely place
I love that we're, the stars come together
Of course the Egyptians would have that, the, the Goddess Nut
Would kind of throw herself around
Anyway
We'd-we'd come in, and the sand-
The sand was there and it just gets in everything
It's a wonderful thing
I like it between my toes, and you know, you just kind of feel it
Just kind of almost a, a [?] thing, but a little bit different
We were there
And I- I had seen, there was a place
Where you know, you can- you could move yourself through
But at some place-
Now, now my little dog
Dog Punjii, who
Who always always comes with me
Comes with me, Punjii
You might think Punjii but that's also your man who goes your garden, your serv-
Well yes but
I find that if I call them both by Punjii
I really both need them to come at the same time
So, so it's generally kind of a more
Efficiency! Efficiency!
And that's, that's what you learn in the Queen's Army
Efficiency
So I have my dog, I have
I have my, my helper
I say Punjii and they both come to me
We were there!
And, and Punjii - the dog now, this time
What was out there?
And in- in the sand, searching around
And I saw him, he got a little bit of- of something in his teeth
And he was- he was tugging with it
And, and of course, you know, I- I don't generally as a rule
Don't put things that I find in the sand in my mouth!
And I like to- to implore those rules, that dignity, that civilization
All the way to my dog!
Because when, when you're out in the world
You're an emissary!
And- and it's not just you, it's your pets as well
They're English pets!
And though they're in the land of the savage
It's an English, civilized, dog
And I said "Punjii! Out of that!"
And I looked, and I looked, and it was more
It was- it was- it was an actual finger!
There, there, out of the sand
And it was moving
Left to right, to left, to right
And there was- there was a rhythm, there was a beat to it
There was a beat
And I saw, I saw it was a movement
A rhythm, a pattern
And there, there was my first primal experience
With the Mummies!
