Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war . nionswere meritorious acts enjoined by the highest au-thority. 8. The most natural course for Kambyses topursue, the conquest of Egypt once achieved andestablished, would have been to depart to his ownlands, leaving behind governors and garrisons. Buthe lingered on and on, evidently possessed with aninvincible repugnance to return, evincing more andmore signs of mental perturbation, and yielding tounprovoked fits of murderous temper which madehim a terror to
Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war . nionswere meritorious acts enjoined by the highest au-thority. 8. The most natural course for Kambyses topursue, the conquest of Egypt once achieved andestablished, would have been to depart to his ownlands, leaving behind governors and garrisons. Buthe lingered on and on, evidently possessed with aninvincible repugnance to return, evincing more andmore signs of mental perturbation, and yielding tounprovoked fits of murderous temper which madehim a terror to his nearest kinsmen and fits became the more frequent and ungoverna-ble that he indulged in excessive drinking—a vice notuncommon among the Persians. It is most probablethat remorse for his brothers fate was at the bot-tom both of his reluctance to face his own peopleagain and of his attacks of spleen. He sought occu-pation in further plans of conquest, intending tocarry his arms into the heart of Libya and of Ethio-pia. He also meditated an expedition against Car-thage, which was to be reached by sea, along the. 52 Kl INElJ AT KIKOzAHAU. CKNTRAl. HALL. 55 356 M/:n/A, fiABYLOiV, and Persia. north coast of Africa. But tlic Phoenicians blanklyrefused to lend their ships t(^ be used against theirown colony, and as the plan could not be carriedout without their assistance, it was abandoned. ]kithe did send out a body of troops westward into thedesert to take possession of the oasis held by tlieAmmonians and famous for its ancient oracle andtemple known as the temple of Ammon (one of thenames of the Egyptians supreme deity), an import-ant position for any one who wished to commandthe submission of the various tribes scattered be-tween the desert and the shore. The little armynever came back, nor w^as it ever heard of; therewas a tradition among the Ammonians that it hadencountered one of the terrible hot blasts of thedesert and been buried in sand-drifts.
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