The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . sur VAntiq. historique, 2ud edit., pp. 152, 170; Makiette,Deir el-Bahari, Te.\t, p. 14; Bkigsch, Gesch. ?3<:riyi)., p. 2S1, et soq.), but in the estuary of a river(De quelques Namgations des £gyptie)ts, pp. 20,21), and this observation has been accepted as decisiveby most Egyptologists (Krall, Studien zur Geschichte, etc., IV. Das Land Puiil, p. 17; Naville,The Temple of Deir el-Bahari, p. 22); besides this, newly discovered fragments show the preseuce ofa hippopotamus (Naville, Egypt Expl. Fund, Archaiol. Report, 1894-95, p. 34). Si
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . sur VAntiq. historique, 2ud edit., pp. 152, 170; Makiette,Deir el-Bahari, Te.\t, p. 14; Bkigsch, Gesch. ?3<:riyi)., p. 2S1, et soq.), but in the estuary of a river(De quelques Namgations des £gyptie)ts, pp. 20,21), and this observation has been accepted as decisiveby most Egyptologists (Krall, Studien zur Geschichte, etc., IV. Das Land Puiil, p. 17; Naville,The Temple of Deir el-Bahari, p. 22); besides this, newly discovered fragments show the preseuce ofa hippopotamus (Naville, Egypt Expl. Fund, Archaiol. Report, 1894-95, p. 34). Since then I havesought to identify tlie landing-place of the Egyptians with the most important of the creeks men-tioned by the Grseco-Koman merchants as accessible for their vessels (_Periplus of the Erythraean Sea,§ 10, in MuLLEH-DiDOT, Geographi Grxci Minores, vol. i. pp. 265, 266), viz. thsit which they calledthe Elephant Eiver, near to the present Kas el-Fil. Drawn by Fauclier-Gudin, from a photograph by Gayet; cf. Petrik, Racial Types, No. AN inhabitant OF THE LAND OF J EXCHANGE OF PRESENTS WITH THE NATIVES OF PUANIT. 249 presents, consisting of five bracelets, two gold necklaces, a dagger with strapand sheath complete, a battle-axe, and eleven strings of glass beads. Theinhabitants, dazzled by the display of so many valuable objects, ran to meetthe new-comers, headed by their sheikh, and expressed a natural astonishmentat the sight of the strangers. How is it, they exclaimed, that you havereached this country hitherto unknown to men ? Have you come down by wayof the sky, or have you sailed on the waters of the
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