. Zigzag journeys in the Levant, with a Talmudist story-teller : a spring trip of the Zigzag club through Egypt and the Holy Land . KAMESKS. quered Ethiopia, then all Asia to the Ganges ; he then crossed over to Europe,and made a conquest of Thrace. Wherever he went, Sesostris left the monuments of his conquests and glory ;these were called Stelae. They were pillars of stone, simple, but as he supposedimperishable ; and all of them were made to testify to the unwilling nations the iiS ZIGZAG I\ THI. LEVANT. power of Ramcscs. Mis army moved on, desolating the world for nine years,leav
. Zigzag journeys in the Levant, with a Talmudist story-teller : a spring trip of the Zigzag club through Egypt and the Holy Land . KAMESKS. quered Ethiopia, then all Asia to the Ganges ; he then crossed over to Europe,and made a conquest of Thrace. Wherever he went, Sesostris left the monuments of his conquests and glory ;these were called Stelae. They were pillars of stone, simple, but as he supposedimperishable ; and all of them were made to testify to the unwilling nations the iiS ZIGZAG I\ THI. LEVANT. power of Ramcscs. Mis army moved on, desolating the world for nine years,leaving the stelae behind them. The triumph of Sesostris, on his return to Egypt, was the greatest of aneienttimes. The captives of all nations were chained to his triumphal car. He hadrobbed the world of treasures, and he brought back a great army of slaves. Having conquered the world, it was now his ambition to fill I^gypt withtemples, palaces, and monuments. Gigantic structures arose, and Thebes be-came the wonder of the world, and the monument of his MEDINET. COURT OF KAMESES. Amid all this success and temporal splendor, his eyes began to grow could no longer see, as of old, the monuments and their inscriptions, thetemples and the palaces. The world grew dark to him,—the light of day, andthe glories of the land to which he had given his life and his heart. Sesostris became blind. His proud spirit and imperious self-will could not endure the misfortune andhumiliation. Was fate stronger than the spirit that had subdued the world .?Could calamity find him, and circumstance bind him, like a common man .-*
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