Up and down the Nile; or, Young adventurers in Africa . , the [ mightiest monarch of his age, said Mr. Hornbrook. , It was found seventy years ago, and presented tothe British Museum ; but they could not move it, andit remains where it originally stood. It was forty-two > feet high, though now it is partly dismembered. Heis the Sesostris of the Greeks, and lived about twelvehundred years before Christ. It is said, though I do not vouch for the truth ofthe story, that when Ramses II. reached the frontierof Egypt on his return from a victorious campaign, hewas invited with his wife and childr
Up and down the Nile; or, Young adventurers in Africa . , the [ mightiest monarch of his age, said Mr. Hornbrook. , It was found seventy years ago, and presented tothe British Museum ; but they could not move it, andit remains where it originally stood. It was forty-two > feet high, though now it is partly dismembered. Heis the Sesostris of the Greeks, and lived about twelvehundred years before Christ. It is said, though I do not vouch for the truth ofthe story, that when Ramses II. reached the frontierof Egypt on his return from a victorious campaign, hewas invited with his wife and children to a banquetat the house of his brother, who was a bad man, anddesired to assassinate the king. He employed men tosurround his brothers tent with combustibles, whichwere set on fire. The servants were tipsy after thebanquet, and failed to render needed assistance to thewife and children of the monarch, and Ramses him-self, with a prayer, rushed into the flames, andsucceeded in saving them. In gratitude for theirpreservation, he erected this THE NECROPOLIS OF ANCIENT MEMPHIS 313 The figure wlien it fell came down upon the great deal more might be said of these surround-ings ; but the commander has so often more thanhinted that the party are not antiquarians, that I willspare you any further remarks, and we will proceedto Sakkara, which was the cemetery of Memphis, notquite two miles distant; but it was the nearest groundnot visited by the inundation, on the border of thedesert. The company mounted the donkeys again, and re-sumed the march. This was the route by which themummies were borne to their final resting-place inthe rock-tombs. The ascent to the plateau began atonce, and they soon passed the ruins of a village, pos-sibly inhabited by the embalmers of the one side were caves which had been used astombs; and near them the remains of preserved humanbeings and of cats had been dug up. In one of thegrottoes was the figure of a cow, representing a
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