. Zigzag journeys in the Levant, with a Talmudist story-teller : a spring trip of the Zigzag club through Egypt and the Holy Land . I TO THE PYRAMIDS. 117 thousand. His fleet, which he brought into Hne on the shores of the Red Sea,consisted of four hundred ships. Now he and his young warriors swept forth from the Nile, and began toshatter the affrighted armies that gathered to oppose them. Sesostris con-. 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
. Zigzag journeys in the Levant, with a Talmudist story-teller : a spring trip of the Zigzag club through Egypt and the Holy Land . I TO THE PYRAMIDS. 117 thousand. His fleet, which he brought into Hne on the shores of the Red Sea,consisted of four hundred ships. Now he and his young warriors swept forth from the Nile, and began toshatter the affrighted armies that gathered to oppose them. Sesostris con-. 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 achievements.
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