In 1820‎,‎ the English traveller Sir Frederick Henniker ‎(‎1793‎-1825‎)‎ set out for Egypt‎,‎ which he would explore for nearly three years‎.‎ He sailed up the Nile‎,‎ calling it ‎'‎the least romantic‎,‎ but most useful of rivers‎'‎‎,‎ stopping off at many places along the way‎.‎ His adventures were varied‎:‎ he was the first known person to climb to the apex of the Pyramid of Khafre at Giza‎,‎ and he acquired a second‎-century coffin that is now in the British Museum‎.‎ He claimed to have met Egypt‎'‎s khedive‎,‎ Muhammad Ali Pasha‎,‎ with whom he discussed English horses and military campaigns‎.‎ Heading next to Mount Sinai and Jerusalem‎,‎ he was brutally attacked by bandits on the road to Jericho‎,‎ leaving him injured and naked‎.‎ He recovered and continued his journey through the Middle East and back to England‎,‎ where he published this lively and often amusing account of his adventures in 1823‎.‎