I Phileas Fogg
while walking through the deserts outside of Cairo. As myself and traveling companion were looking out over the
Nile, we decided to venture into the Valley of Kings and walk through some
tombs that were recently discovered. As we walked up to the tomb out slithered
a huge cobra snake from underneath a rock, this snake appeared to be the
guardian of the tomb for why else would it be there? Many Pharaohs have left
there marks all over Egypt but one was known to have left a den of snakes, the
myth is told that if you cross into the entrance of a tomb you would be covered
in cobra snakes falling from the tops of the tombs where it has been said that
the snakes reproduce at the rate of 10,000 each year since the 11th
century BC. Alas when they crossed over into this newly discovered tomb sure
enough the snakes came falling from the ceiling, we were suddenly covered with
snakes. After what seemed like an eternity battling snakes and pulling snakes
off of one another we quickly wondered how we would get rid of the dead snakes,
for to kill snakes found in tombs was a sure path to death because the snakes
were protected. Low and behold an Egyptian Nubian appeared, he saw the panic on
our faces and said do not fear I have a use for these (dead snakes), following
the Nubian back to his village, we were surprised to find that the Nubians made
snake skin chips out of the skins of dead cobras, all was saved and the world
was one again.
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