. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. IKLLAH WOMEN. BOOK III. THE INHABITANTS OF CHAPTER I. Early civilisation—Menes—The great pyramids—The earliestpapyrus—Egyptian conquests—The kings of Thebes—TheHyksos—Thothmes I—Seti I.—Ramses II.—Exodus of theIsraelites—Decline of Egypt—Conquest by the Persians-Later conquerors—Physical characters of ancient Egyptians—Dress—Egyptian religion—The priesthood—Egyptian

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. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. IKLLAH WOMEN. BOOK III. THE INHABITANTS OF CHAPTER I. Early civilisation—Menes—The great pyramids—The earliestpapyrus—Egyptian conquests—The kings of Thebes—TheHyksos—Thothmes I—Seti I.—Ramses II.—Exodus of theIsraelites—Decline of Egypt—Conquest by the Persians-Later conquerors—Physical characters of ancient Egyptians—Dress—Egyptian religion—The priesthood—Egyptian ar-chitecture—Embalming and burial—The Book of the Dead—Language—Hierogljrphics—Arts and sciences-The modernEgyptians—Importance of the Nile—The feUahs—Egyptianwomen—Peasants dress—Food—Character—The Copts—Theuppar classes—Habits—Dress of men—Dress of women-Children-Houses—Divorce and slavery—Religious pride-Fatalism- Habits and character. UNLIKE Europe and Asia, Africa can boastof but two of the great peoples of formertimes, the Egyptians and the was the scene of many of the ravages andsome of the ^lories of medieval Mahometanisni: ^ THE EGYPTIANS. 529 I and it may now be descri

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