ght be
objected to. In this case, there are the words of a modern historian,
who has studied Egypt all his life, not in Berlin or London, like some
other historians, but in Egypt, deciphering the inscriptions of the
oldest sarcophagi and papyri, that is to say, the words of Henry
Brugsch-Bey:

"... I repeat, my firm conviction is that the Egyptians came from Asia
long before the historical period, having traversed the Suez promontory,
that bridge of all the nations, and found a new fatherland on the banks
of the Nile."

An inscription on a Hammamat rock says that Sankara, the last Pharaoh of
the eleventh dynasty, sent a nobleman to Punt: "I was sent on a ship to
Punt, to bring back some aromatic gum, gathered by the princes of the
Red Land."

Commenting on this inscription, Brugsch-Bey explains that "under the
name of Punt the ancient inhabitants of Chemi meant a distant land
surrounded by a great ocean, full of mountains and valleys, and rich
in ebony and other expensive woods, in perfumes, precious stones and
metals, in wild beasts, giraffes, leopards and big monkeys." The name of
a monkey in Egypt was Kaff, or Kafi, in Hebrew Koff, in Sanskrit Kapi.

In the eyes of the ancient Egyptians, this Punt was a sacred land,
because Punt or Panuter was "the original land of the gods, who left
it under the leadership of A-Mon [Manu-Vena of Kalluka-Bhatta?] Hor and
Hator, and duly arrived in Chemi."

Hanuman has a decided family likeness to the Egyptian Cynocephalus, and
the emblem of Osiris and Shiva is the same. Qui vivra verra!

Our return journey was very agreeable. We had adapted ourselves to
Peri's movements and felt ourselves first-rate jockeys. But for a whole
week afterwards we could hardly walk.

A City Of The Dead

What would be your choice if you had to choose between being blind and
being deaf? Nine people out of ten answer this question by positively
preferring deafness to blindness. And one whose good fortune it has been
to contemplate, even for a moment, some fantastic fairy-like corner of
India, this country of lace-like marble palaces and enchanting gardens,
would willingly add to deafness, lameness of both legs, rather than lose
such sights.

We are told that Saadi, the great poet, bitterly complained of his
friends looking tired and indifferent while he praised the beauty and
charm of his lady-love. "If the happiness of contemplating her wonderful
beauty," remonstrated he, "was yours, a