. Wanderings in Bible lands: notes of travel in Italy, Greece, Asia-Minor, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Cush, and Palestine. act reproduction, must havebeen magnificent before it was broken and mutilated. Thefeatures are finely cut and the face is Egyptian. Originallythe statue was fifty feet high, and was one of a pair whichstood in front of the temple, the other having recently beendiscovered in the Nile mud. We stood some time lookingat this defaced, mutilated, fallen statue of the greatest ofall the Pharaohs, under whose reign Israel was oppressedand Moses fled away from Egypt, choosing rather
. Wanderings in Bible lands: notes of travel in Italy, Greece, Asia-Minor, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Cush, and Palestine. act reproduction, must havebeen magnificent before it was broken and mutilated. Thefeatures are finely cut and the face is Egyptian. Originallythe statue was fifty feet high, and was one of a pair whichstood in front of the temple, the other having recently beendiscovered in the Nile mud. We stood some time lookingat this defaced, mutilated, fallen statue of the greatest ofall the Pharaohs, under whose reign Israel was oppressedand Moses fled away from Egypt, choosing rather to suf-fer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy thepleasures of sin for a season. How appropriately thewords of Isaiah apply to the mighty conqueror, They thatsee thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee,saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, thatdid shake kingdoms; that made the world as a wilderness,and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the houseof his prisoners? All the kings of the nations, even all ofthem, lie in glory, every one in his own house. But thou. WANDERINGS IN BIBLE LANDS. 157 art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and asthe raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with asword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcasetrodden under feet. Isa. 14: 16-19. We ride over the sand that partly covers the site of an-cient Memphis, passing the Arab village of Mitrahenny andgoing on to Sakkara where the dead of Noph were the way men and boys meet us, offering for sale lamps,scarabs (the sacred beetle of ancient Egypt) and other an-tiquities, some taken from the tombs, others manufacturedat Cairo. One held up the mummified hand of an ancientMemphite, offering to sell it for two shillings, saying: Him very good mummy hand. Reaching the tombs we look about us. There is sandeverywhere. Before us is the great desert sand-waste, partof which we have just passed over. The eddies of the
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