The world: historical and actual . Abraham, forced bythe stress of fodder for his flocks, drove his herdsto Egypt, there getting himself into trouble by pre-tending that his wife was his sister. It may be well,in this connection, to speak of an episode in Egyp-tian history which served to consolidate the country politically. We refer to the reign of the ShepherdKings, or Hvcsos, who scourged Egypt for severalhundred years. From the meager accounts pre-served, they must have been to that country muchwhat the Golden Horde, or Tartars, were to race of shepherds and traders, these Arabs g
The world: historical and actual . Abraham, forced bythe stress of fodder for his flocks, drove his herdsto Egypt, there getting himself into trouble by pre-tending that his wife was his sister. It may be well,in this connection, to speak of an episode in Egyp-tian history which served to consolidate the country politically. We refer to the reign of the ShepherdKings, or Hvcsos, who scourged Egypt for severalhundred years. From the meager accounts pre-served, they must have been to that country muchwhat the Golden Horde, or Tartars, were to race of shepherds and traders, these Arabs gradu-ally gained a foothold in Lower Egypt. Some thinkthey were the Philistines before they settled in Pales-tine ; others, that they were the Hebrews, betweenthe time when Joseph, or, as the tablets call him,Zephnet-Phoenich—Joseph the Phoenician—was amember of Pharaohs cabinet, and the subjugationof the Israelites. Be that as it may, for a century orso these interlopers maintained a certain sovereignty over the agricultural. n Captives Making Bricks. and mechanical Egyp-tians. Salatis was thefirst of these ShepherdKings, and five othersare named in the chron-icles. Finally the peo-ple became so restiveunder foreign domina-tion that Upper andLower Egypt joinedforces and swept theenemy out of the union thusform-ed included the minorstates of the country,and survived its immediate occasion. The kings ofThebes now became m on arch s of all Egypt, muchas Ivan the Great secured for the grand princedomof Moscow the sovereignty of all the Russias throughthe expulsion of the Tartars. The Pharaohs ofAbraham, Joseph, and Moses, were the rulers ofMemphis, or Lower Egypt, and it was doubtless forthe pyramids that the Hebrew slaves were com-pelled to make bricks without straw, and itwas in all probability from the fecund ooze of thedelta of the Nile that the magical and miraculousten plagues sprung. And now, without wearying the reader with mereskeletons of facts, names, and d
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