The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . stream of people, and assesgroaned beneath their burdens. The Egyptian purchases comprised the mostvaried objects: ivory tusks, gold, ebony, cassia, myrrh, cynocephali and greenmonkeys, greyhounds, leopard skins, large oxen, slaves, and last, but not least,thirty-one incense trees, with their roots surrounded by a ball of earth and placedin large baskets. The lading of the ships was a long and tedious affair. Allavailable space being at length exhausted, and as much cargo placed onboard as was compatible with the navigation of the vesse
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . stream of people, and assesgroaned beneath their burdens. The Egyptian purchases comprised the mostvaried objects: ivory tusks, gold, ebony, cassia, myrrh, cynocephali and greenmonkeys, greyhounds, leopard skins, large oxen, slaves, and last, but not least,thirty-one incense trees, with their roots surrounded by a ball of earth and placedin large baskets. The lading of the ships was a long and tedious affair. Allavailable space being at length exhausted, and as much cargo placed onboard as was compatible with the navigation of the vessel, the squadronset sail and with all speed took its way northwards.^ The Egyptians touched ^t several places on the coast on their return journey,making friendly alliances with the iuliabitants; the Ilim added a quota to theirfreight, for which room was with difficulty found on board,—it consisted notonly of the inevitable gold, ivory, and skins, but also of live leopards and agiraffe, together with plants and fruits unknown on the banks of the Nile.*. rniscE paeihC and the piuncess of pDanit. DtMiCHEN, Hint. Inscliriften, vol. ii. pi. x.; Makiette, Deir el-Bahari, pi. 5. Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a. photograph by Emil Brugsch-Bey; cf. Makiette, Deir el-Bahari, pi. 43, aud Voyage de la IIaute-£gypte, vol. ii. pi. 62. DuMiCHEN, Die Flolte, etc., pis. ii., xv., and Hist. Inscliriften, vol. ii. pis. , xiv., xv.;Makiette, Deir el-Bahari, pis. 5, 6. * As to the country of the Ilim, cf. Maspero, Les Dims, in the Becueil de Travaux, vol. viil. p. 84;and G. Tomkins, Bemarlis on Mr. Flinders PHries Collection of Ethnographic Types from the Monu-ments of Egypt, p. 214. Liebleiii thought that their country was explored, not by the .sailors whovoyaged to Puanit, but by a different body who proceeded by land (^Die Jiischriften des Ttmjyels von THE RETURN OF THE FLEET TO EGYPT. 251 The fleet at length made its reappearance in Egyptian ports, having on boardthe chiefs of several
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