Explore "The Mystery of Khufu's Tomb" by Talbot Mundy on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
So now you know how you get ashore when you're not on the ship's papers.
What explanation the captain makes to the port authorities is between them and the captain. Grim and I, having time to kill until the night train pulled out, visited the tomb called Komesh-Shukafa, whose lower levels are all under salt water. It is a fascinating place, and exasperating, for the splendour of the upper part and the obvious wealth of the family for whom it was first built makes it likely that those lower levels contain treasure worth diving for.