Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... history of Sweden commences with "Once upon a time there was a big cow." The ox-god has long ago disappeared, except among the Druses, but Set still goes about, as the negro preacher said, "seeking whom he may devour somebody." It was not far from here, at a place now called Abu-tig, that the great battle between Set and Horus took place. We slept that night at Girgeh, to which I referred out of place intentionally, in order that my reader might begin his tour at the beginning of Time, which we could not. Girgeh, it will be remembered, is the modern name of This. After a very cursory view of Abtu, which the Greeks called (and which is still called) Abydos, from the resemblance of its name to that of their own Abydos, we proceeded to Qeneh; whence, after providing ourselves with camels, we penetrated into the Arabian desert, to visit the Bedouins in their own homes. And then, crossing the Nile in a rowing boat, we visited the temple of Denderah (Tentyra), where the Hon. Sec. had the satisfaction of taking a photograph of Cleopatra from a contemporary portrait. Although this temple is one of the most picturesque in Egypt, it hardly falls within the scope of the Egyptologist, having been built at a very late period--that is to say, about the time of the Roman invasion. Next day we reached Thebes, the mighty city of a hundred gates, which stretched for miles on both sides of the Nile. Its real name was Uast, and how it came to be named after the Greek town of Thebes I do not know.' In the Hebrew Bible it is called No. We landed at that part of Uast where now stands the little town of Luxor, on the east bank of the river. The necropolis is on the opposite side. "Rather like a broken-down cotton-factory," remarked...
