. Wanderings in Bible lands: notes of travel in Italy, Greece, Asia-Minor, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Cush, and Palestine. particles fillthe air, and so dense do they become that the sun is entire-ly obscured. We can well imagine what a storm of thiskind would mean to travelers on the desert. Many cara-vans, overtaken by these terrible simoons, perish by theway, and the bones of man and beast whiten the desertroute. We find it exceedingly uncomfortable in the middleof the river on our Nile steamer. On the west side of the river, about one hundred milessouth of Assiut, is a landing-place called Be
. Wanderings in Bible lands: notes of travel in Italy, Greece, Asia-Minor, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Cush, and Palestine. particles fillthe air, and so dense do they become that the sun is entire-ly obscured. We can well imagine what a storm of thiskind would mean to travelers on the desert. Many cara-vans, overtaken by these terrible simoons, perish by theway, and the bones of man and beast whiten the desertroute. We find it exceedingly uncomfortable in the middleof the river on our Nile steamer. On the west side of the river, about one hundred milessouth of Assiut, is a landing-place called Belianeh; andabout ten miles across the Nile valley from this place arethe ruins of Abydos, which are in some respects the bestpreserved of all the ruins in Egypt. This is especially trueof the wall sculpture, which is remarkably well many of the ancient temples the sculptures have beendefaced. Much of this was done by the the sculptured figures as idols, they sought todestroy them by mutilating the faces. Our engravingshows the figure of one of the Pharaohs riding in a chariot 211. WANDERINGS IN BIBLE LANDS. 213 with drawn sword in one hand, but the face has been chis-eled away. The temples at Abydos were not excavated un-til A. D. 1853; hence their excellent state of preservation. The most important ruin at Abydos is the Memnon-ium, or the temple of Seti I, the father of the supposed op-pressor of the Israelites, Rameses II. On one of the wallsRameses II relates all that he has done for the honor ofhis fathers memory, how he erected statues of him atThebes, and how he built up the sacred doors. At the endhe gives a sketch of his childhood, and the various gradesof rank and dignity which he held. In this temple is thenow famous Abydos Tablet, which gives the names ofseventy-six kings of Egypt, beginning with Menes and end-ing with Seti I. The name of each ruler in hieroglyphics isenclosed with lines. The names of the kings of the nine-teenth dy
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