. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . mines is made on the Egyptian monuments, at Beni-Hasan (Maspero, La GrandeInscription, de Beni-Hassan, in the Recueil de Travaux, vol. i. p. 174), at El-Kab (Brugsch,JEgyplische Geschichte, p. 24G), at Elephantine (BsUGSGH, Die Biblischen sieben Jahre der Hungers-noth, p. 131, et seq.). S40 THE POLITICAL CONSTITUTION OF EGYPT. the elasticity of his temperament that his miser)7 was not sufficient to depresshim : those monuments upon which his life is portrayed in all its minutiae,represent him as animated with inexhaustible cheerfulness. The summ
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . mines is made on the Egyptian monuments, at Beni-Hasan (Maspero, La GrandeInscription, de Beni-Hassan, in the Recueil de Travaux, vol. i. p. 174), at El-Kab (Brugsch,JEgyplische Geschichte, p. 24G), at Elephantine (BsUGSGH, Die Biblischen sieben Jahre der Hungers-noth, p. 131, et seq.). S40 THE POLITICAL CONSTITUTION OF EGYPT. the elasticity of his temperament that his miser)7 was not sufficient to depresshim : those monuments upon which his life is portrayed in all its minutiae,represent him as animated with inexhaustible cheerfulness. The summermonths ended, the ground again becomes visible, the river retires into itsbed, the time of sowing is at hand : the peasant takes his team and hisimplements with him and goes off to the In many places, the soil,softened by the water, offers no resistance, and the hoe easily turns it up;elsewhere it is hard, and only yields to the plough. While one of the farm-servants, almost bent double, leans his whole weight on the handles to force. TWO FELLAHIN WORK THE SHADOUF IN A the ploughshare deep into the soil, his comrade drives the oxen and encouragesthem by his songs : these are only two or three short sentences, set to anunvarying chant, and with the time beaten on the back of the nearest and again he turns round towards his comrade and encourages him : Lean hard ! — Hold fast ! The sower follows behind and throws handfulsof grain into the furrow : a flock of sheep or goats brings up the rear, and asthey walk, they tread the seed into the ground. The herdsmen crack theirwhips and sing some country song at the top of their voices,—based on thecomplaint of some fellah seized by the corvee to clean out a canal. Thedigger is in the water with the fish,—he talks to the silurus, and exchangesgreetings with the oxyrrhynchus :—West ! your digger is a digger from theWest ! 4 All this takes place under the vigilant eye of the master : as soon 1 Masper
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