Egypt : handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai . ned with the spears of the allusion to this kind of hunting is said to be contained in thefollowing passage in the Book of Job (xli. 1,2) : — Canst thou drawout leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thoulcttest down? Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jawthrough with a thorn? — The other hippopotamus which the menare endeavouring to secure has a small crocodile in its mouth. Atthe stern of Tis vessel is a smaller boat containing a boy, who isabout t
Egypt : handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai . ned with the spears of the allusion to this kind of hunting is said to be contained in thefollowing passage in the Book of Job (xli. 1,2) : — Canst thou drawout leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thoulcttest down? Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jawthrough with a thorn? — The other hippopotamus which the menare endeavouring to secure has a small crocodile in its mouth. Atthe stern of Tis vessel is a smaller boat containing a boy, who isabout to strike on the head a silurus which he has caught. Theother fish represented in the water are so faithfully drawn that thespecies to which they belong are easily determined. The three bo^tsare surrounded by papyrus plants, among the tops of which variousbirds are sitting on their nests or fluttering about. A pair of king-fishers with their young, in a nest faithfully copied from nature, of Ti. SAKKARA. 4. Route. 399 are defending themselves against the threatened attack of somekind of This scene is nearly double the size of he others, and the above copy isabout Vi9th of the original size. Below these hunting scenes is the procession of women hearingofferings, already described. Above these, to the right, are cattlebeing driven through the water during the inundation. Above the inundation and over the door are a number of to Herodotus the Egyptians sowed their seed on the wetmud, and caused it to be trodden in by swine, and this task is here 400 Iioute 4. SAKE ABA. Environs
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