X. A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY 59
XI. EGYPTIAN BOOKS 66
XII. TEMPLES AND TOMBS 72
XIII. AN EGYPTIAN'S HEAVEN 82

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PLATE

*1. AN EGYPTIAN GALLEY, 1500 B.C. _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

2. THE GODDESS ISIS DANDLING THE KING 9

3. THE GREAT GATE OF THE TEMPLE OF LUXOR, WITH OBELISK 16

*4. RAMSES II. IN HIS WAR-CHARIOT--SARDINIAN GUARDSMEN ON FOOT 25

*5. ZAZAMANKH AND THE LOST CORONET 32

6. GRANITE STATUE OF RAMSES II. 35

7. NAVE OF THE TEMPLE AT KARNAK 38

*8. "AND THE GOOSE STOOD UP AND CACKLED" 41

*9. AN EGYPTIAN COUNTRY HOUSE 48

10. STATUES OF KING AMENHOTEP III. 51

11. THE SPHINX AND THE SECOND PYRAMID 54

*12. A DESERT POSTMAN 57

*13. THE BARK OF THE MOON, GUARDED BY THE DIVINE EYES 64

14. GATEWAY OF THE TEMPLE OF EDFU 73

15. WALL-PICTURES IN A THEBAN TOMB 80

*16. PHARAOH ON HIS THRONE 20

_Sketch-Map of Ancient Egypt on page viii_

* These eight illustrations are in colour; the others are in black
and white.

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[Illustration: SKETCH-MAP OF ANCIENT EGYPT.]

ANCIENT EGYPT

CHAPTER I

"A LAND OF OLD RENOWN"

If we were asked to name the most interesting country in the world, I
suppose that most people would say Palestine--not because there is
anything so very wonderful in the land itself, but because of all the
great things that have happened there, and above all because of its
having been the home of our Lord. But after Palestine, I think that
Egypt would come next. For one thing, it is linked very closely to
Palestine by all those beautiful stories of the Old Testament, which
tell us of Joseph, the slave-boy who became Viceroy of Egypt; of Moses,
the Hebrew child who became a Prince of Pharaoh's household; and of the
wonderful exodus