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Title: Some world-circuit saunterings
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Nichols, William F. (William Ford), 1849-1924
Subjects: Voyages around the world
Publisher: San Francisco, P. Elder and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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d intentionfor emancipation of labor in carrying the wheel-barrows! In the particular mummy case referred towas preserved the very cane used by the one em-balmed some three thousand years before Christ.It was a plain staff, showing contact with the earthas he had walked with it—^you could fairly hear itsthump, thump—and visuaHzed him in a way thatone would journey a good distance to experience.Another illustration was at the celebrated Tombsof the Kings, some miles back across the river fromLuxor. Descending by a long passage way into thevery depths of a mountain, is seen the mummy ofKing^Amenophis II. of the XVIII. Dynasty (about1500 B.C.). It is one of the very few royal mummiesnow left where they were originally entombed, andyou see it under an electric hght, the current of whichalso illuminates the passage way to it! The calmfeatures are those upon which his generation looked,and some of the withered garlands are with it to tellof royal homage then. And somebody presses a (50)
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Relief of Cleopatra and Son, at Denderah A fine etching in stone. The reliefs on the eastern and western walls of the Temple of Hathor date from the time of Nero and other early Romem Emperors. ) THE NILE TRIP modern button to enable us to look upon that facenow and the touch of human makes the whole of theages akin. Another tie with the past that even more fell inwith the musings and bent of a parson-saunterer, wasthe constant suggestion of the Christian touch withthose regions and ruins in the early centuries of ourera. Grosses, palimpsest over or amid older hiero-glyphics at many points, bear their testimony toChristian use of the old temples or parts of them,and picture to the eye the assembhes or anchoriteswho there bowed at the name of Jesus as generationsbefore them had bent before the symbols of Amen-Ra. And the aggressive spirit of the old Christianworshippers has left its mark upon the images andornaments of the older Egyptian rehgion. In onetemple in particular, that of Hat

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