Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . nown, caused his son Rameses to be educatedwith the other young Egyptian nobles, and it is altogetherprobable that one of these Egyptian nobles was Moses, thegreat Lawgiver of Israel. How Pharaohs daughter foundhim as she went to bathe in the Nile ; how, by the sistersgentle ruse, the childs mother was called to be the nurse,we all remember. Who has not felt glad when the princesssaid to the anxious mother: Take this child and nurse it forme, and I will give thee thy wages. Never was such acongen
Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . nown, caused his son Rameses to be educatedwith the other young Egyptian nobles, and it is altogetherprobable that one of these Egyptian nobles was Moses, thegreat Lawgiver of Israel. How Pharaohs daughter foundhim as she went to bathe in the Nile ; how, by the sistersgentle ruse, the childs mother was called to be the nurse,we all remember. Who has not felt glad when the princesssaid to the anxious mother: Take this child and nurse it forme, and I will give thee thy wages. Never was such acongenial task given to a nurse before! And the womantook the child and nursed it, and the child grew, and shebrought him unto Pharaohs daughter, and he became herson, and she called his name Moses, and she said : Because Idrew him out of the water. Now, after reading this briefBiblical story, let us turn to our museum again. Look intothat glass case. There, in that royal gilded coffin, lies ashrunken, withered mummy. The lower limbs are yetwrapped in the cerements of the grave, but the skull is ex-. MUMMY OF MOSES S PLAYFELLOW. 409 posed and still perfect. The long, hooked, Koman nose, thedeep-sunken eyeballs, the heavy, square jaw, tell of the war-rior and the tyrant. There is Mosess playfellow. For more than three thousand yearshe lay silent in the earth, until at last thespade of the antiquarian broke into hisdark resting place, his coffin was opened,and he was found to tell us with his firm,determined lips, the story of the awful Moppression and tyranny which he inaugu-rated so many centuries ago. 1 Rameses II, the Pharaoh of the Op-pression, died about 3,300 years ago. Hisbody was embalmed, placed on board theroyal barge, and floated up the Nile tothe Theban City of the Dead, where itwas laid to rest in the great sarcophaguswhich had been cut from the limestoneof Biban-el-Mulouk. The location of thetomb was well known then, because it hadbeen the habit of the monarch to visitit
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