. Wanderings in Bible lands: notes of travel in Italy, Greece, Asia-Minor, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Cush, and Palestine. them, yet none can help buyingthem, if only because other people do so, or to get rid ofa troublesome dealer, or to give to friends at home. Idoubt, however, if even the most enthusiastic scarab-fanciers really feel in all its force the symbolism attaching 210 WANDERINGS IN BIBLE LANDS. to these little gems, or appreciate the exquisite naturalnessof their execution until they have seen the living beetle atwork.* Like all travelers we brought away with us a numberof scarabs, s
. Wanderings in Bible lands: notes of travel in Italy, Greece, Asia-Minor, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Cush, and Palestine. them, yet none can help buyingthem, if only because other people do so, or to get rid ofa troublesome dealer, or to give to friends at home. Idoubt, however, if even the most enthusiastic scarab-fanciers really feel in all its force the symbolism attaching 210 WANDERINGS IN BIBLE LANDS. to these little gems, or appreciate the exquisite naturalnessof their execution until they have seen the living beetle atwork.* Like all travelers we brought away with us a numberof scarabs, some formed in stone, others moulded inpottery. Some large, some small, some ancient, and somemodern, for the wily Arab manufactures stone and clayrepresentations of the sacred beetle and sells them to un-suspecting travelers for the real, ancient scarab. One ofundoubted antiquity was given to a friend and brought thisresponse: It was once the sacred tokenOf eternity unbroken And long vanished priest or king,Lord or lady owned the thing,Now tis mine. * Edwards. A Thousand Miles up the Nile, pages 96,97-. CHAPTER XII. A Simoon.—Abydos.—List of the Kings of Egypt. — Thebes.— TheRuined Temples of Luxor.—Shishak and his Captives.—Rehoboam.— The Colossi.— The Valley of the Dead—The Tombs of the Kings. ^W^f EAVING Assiut we continue our journey southwardjJIW on the River of Egypt. Between Assiut and Luxorf^Ws- we have an experience with a sand-storm, or si-moon, as they are called on the desert. The wind blows aperfect gale, and the sand of the desert is caught and car-ried in great swirls across the plain. The finer particles fillthe air, and so dense do they become that the sun is entire-ly obscured. We can well imagine what a storm of thiskind would mean to travelers on the desert. Many cara-vans, overtaken by these terrible simoons, perish by theway, and the bones of man and beast whiten the desertroute. We find it exceedingly uncomfortable in the mid
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