ion whether
the Exodus of the Jews from Egypt took place in the reign of Thotmes
or many years subsequently, some authors assigning it to the time
of Rameses. Without attempting to enter into this much-discussed
question, I have assumed that the Israelites were still in Egypt at
the time of Thotmes, and by introducing Moses just at the time he
began to take up the cause of the people to whom he belonged, I leave
it to be inferred that the Exodus took place some forty years later. I
wish you to understand, however, that you are not to accept this date
as being absolutely correct. Opinions differ widely upon it; and as no
allusion whatever has been discovered either to the Exodus or to any
of the events which preceded it among the records of Egypt, there is
nothing to fix the date as occurring during the reign of any one among
the long line of Egyptian kings. The term Pharaoh used in the Bible
throws no light upon the subject, as Pharaoh simply means king, and
the name of no monarch bearing that appellation is to be found on the
Egyptian monuments. I have in no way exaggerated the consequences
arising from the slaying of the sacred cat, as the accidental killing
of any cat whatever was an offense punished by death throughout the
history of Egypt down to the time of the Roman connection with that
country.

Yours sincerely,
G. A. HENTY.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. PAGE
The King of the Rebu 7

CHAPTER II.
The Siege of the City 26

CHAPTER III.
Captive 45

CHAPTER IV.
An Easy Servitude 64

CHAPTER V.
In Lower Egypt 83

CHAPTER VI.
Fowling and Fishing 105

CHAPTER VII.
Hippopotamus and Crocodile 125

CHAPTER VIII.
The Conspiracy in the Temple 147

CHAPTER IX.
A Startling Event 164

CHAPTER X.
The Cat of Bubastes 185

CHAPTER XI.
Dangers Thicken 206

CHAPTER XII.
The Death of Ameres 224

CHAPTER XIII.
The Search for Mysa 245

CHAPTER XIV.
A Prince of Egypt 265

CHAPTER XV.
Ameres is Revenged 284

CHAPTER XVI.
Up the Nile 308

CHAPTER XVII.
Out of Egypt 329

CHAPTER XVIII.
The Desert Journey 349

CHAPTER XIX.
Home at Last 365

CHAPTER XX.
The King of the Rebu