The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . ind to-day in the towns of Nubia. The tribes scattered right and left in thedesert, or distributed beyond the confluence of the two Niles among the plainsof Sennar, were descended from the old indigenous races, and paid valuabletribute every year in precious metals, ivory, timber, or the natural products of Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from ii pliotogiaijli by Insin^er, taken in 1881. ^ E. de Rouge was the first to point out {Extrait dun. EgypHcn en giiritiire hii^ralique,p. H, in tlic iJeiMc ArchMoyique, Ist series, vol. ix,, 185
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . ind to-day in the towns of Nubia. The tribes scattered right and left in thedesert, or distributed beyond the confluence of the two Niles among the plainsof Sennar, were descended from the old indigenous races, and paid valuabletribute every year in precious metals, ivory, timber, or the natural products of Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from ii pliotogiaijli by Insin^er, taken in 1881. ^ E. de Rouge was the first to point out {Extrait dun. EgypHcn en giiritiire hii^ralique,p. H, in tlic iJeiMc ArchMoyique, Ist series, vol. ix,, 1852) that in tlie Orbiney Fapijrus the title of Prince of Kiish was assigned to the heir-presumptive to the throne. 232 THE EIGHTEENTH THEBAN DYNASTY. their districts, under penalty of armed invasion.^ Among these races were stillto be found descendants of the Mazaiu and Uauaiu, who in days gone by hadopposed the advance of the victorious Egyptians : the name of the Uauaiu was,indeed, used as a generic term to distinguish all those tribes which frequented. ARRIVAL OF AN ETHIOPIAN QUEEN BRINGING TRIBVTE TO THE VICEROY OF the mountains between the Nile and the Eed Sea,^ but the wave of conquesthad passed far beyond the boundaries reached in early campaigns, and hadbrought the Egyptians into contact with nations, with whom they hadbeen in only indirect commercial relations in former times. Some of thesewere light-coloured men of a tyjje similar to that of the modera Abyssiuiaiisor Gallas : they had the same haughty and imperious carriage, the same well-developed and powerful frames, and the same love of fighting. Most of the The tribate nf the Gaubatiu, or people of the south, and that of Kiish and of the Crauaifi, ismentinncil repeatedly in the Armales de Thutnwsis III.,1\. 15-17 for the year XXXI., 11. 27-29 for theyear XXXIII., and 11. 35-37 for the year XXXIV. The regularity with which this item recurs, uu-accompauied by any mention of war, following after each Syrian cam
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