Gallery of antiquities, selected from the British Museum . s of Pount, or Libya, bring a tribute ofmonkeys, ivory, pard-skins, and fruit; the people of Kaf or Kfou, an Asiatic red race, splendidgold vases; the ])eople of Nuliia and Kusli, or /Ethiopia, bags of gems, monkeys, skins, logs ofebony, elephants tusks, ostriches eggs, and ft-athers, a cameleoj^ard, dogs, and oxen; theRoten-nou or Lodn-nou, vases, chariots, horses, a white bear, an elephant, and ivory. Theseanimals fix the people to the plains of Syria and Bactria, and the gloves particularly connecttliem witli the Persian races. Tiie
Gallery of antiquities, selected from the British Museum . s of Pount, or Libya, bring a tribute ofmonkeys, ivory, pard-skins, and fruit; the people of Kaf or Kfou, an Asiatic red race, splendidgold vases; the ])eople of Nuliia and Kusli, or /Ethiopia, bags of gems, monkeys, skins, logs ofebony, elephants tusks, ostriches eggs, and ft-athers, a cameleoj^ard, dogs, and oxen; theRoten-nou or Lodn-nou, vases, chariots, horses, a white bear, an elephant, and ivory. Theseanimals fix the people to the plains of Syria and Bactria, and the gloves particularly connecttliem witli the Persian races. Tiie king Tliotluues receives the tribute, which is ^ Cf. Rosel. Mod. Slor. t. iii. paite i. pp. 109-181. I have ft drawing by Mr. Bononii of this obelisk. *? Niebulir, Reisebesclireihung, 4to. Ko. ]ieu. 1771, Tal. iv. p. 32.^ VuiHig, J)r. Thos. nioroglyphics, fol. Lund. 1U23, pi. xli. xlii. Rosellini makes him reign twelveyears, 1710-1727 and SlrCiard-ncr ^Vilkinson ten years, Cf, lloakins. Travels in Ethi- /;-- ! I pM) ?^. ^
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