of personages to offer the key of life.
Another painting of the queen shows her on her knees drinking milk from
the sacred cow, with an intent and greedy figure, and an extraordinarily
sensual and expressive face. That she was well guarded is surely proved
by a brave display of her soldiers--red men on a white wall. Full
of life and gaiety all in a row they come, holding weapons, and,
apparently, branches, and advancing with a gait of triumph that tells of
"spacious days." And at their head is an officer, who looks back, much
like a modern drill sergeant, to see how his men are marching.

In the southern shrine of the temple, cut in the rock as is the northern
shrine, once more I found traces of the "Lady of the Under-World." For
this shrine was dedicated to Hathor, though the whole temple was sacred
to the Theban god Amun. Upon a column were the remains of the goddess's
face, with a broad brow and long, large eyes. Some fanatic had hacked
away the mouth.

The tomb of Hatshepsu was found by Mr. Theodore M. Davis, and the famous
_Vache_ of Deir-el-Bahari by Monsieur Naville as lately as 1905. It
stands in the museum at Cairo, but for ever it will be connected in the
minds of men with the tiger-colored precipices and the Colonnades of
Thebes. Behind the ruins of the temple of Mentu-Hotep III., in a chapel
of painted rock, the Vache-Hathor was found.

It is not easy to convey by any description the impression this
marvellous statue makes. Many of us love our dogs, our horses, some
of us adore our cats; but which of us can think, without a smile, of
worshipping a cow? Yet the cow was the Egyptian Aphrodite's sacred
animal. Under the form of a cow she was often represented. And in the
statue she is presented to us as a limestone cow. And positively this
cow is to be worshipped.

She is shown in the act apparently of stepping gravely forward out of
a small arched shrine, the walls of which are decorated with brilliant
paintings. Her color is red and yellowish red, and is covered with dark
blotches of a very dark green, which look almost black. Only one or two
are of a bluish color. Her height is moderate. I stand about five foot
nine, and I found that on her pedestal the line of her back was about
level with my chest. The lower part of the body, much of which is
concealed by the under block of limestone, is white, tinged with yellow.
The tail is red. Above the head, open and closed lotus-flowers form
a head-dress, with t