ROCK-TRACINGS. 



Egyptians and that of Hazeby, in Sweden. The boats of the 

 Egyptians are symmetrical at both ends, and are ornamented 

 with carved heads. They have a single mast, and their sails 

 are furled. At the top of the mast there is a castellated 

 structure which will be seen in the chapter on the ships of the 

 Northmen ; but this is not found on the rock-tracings. If these 

 early inhabitants of the North went to the Mediterranean and 

 Egypt we can account for the camel, turtle, octopus-like 

 animal, leopards, and ostriches engraved on the rocks of the 

 North. 



A remarkable rock-tracing, which I reproduce from ' The 

 Land of the Midnight Sun,' shows horsemen with quadrangular 



Fig. 899. Horsemen represented on a rock cutting at Tegneby, in Tanum parish, 



Bohuslan. ^ its real size. 



shields ; these shields are seen on some Egyptian bas-reliefs, 



and two somewhat similar ones have been found in England. 



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Either the people represent themselves on this engraving, or 

 some foreign men which the carver of this memento had seen. 

 The question naturally arises, did the people of the large 

 Scandinavian peninsula learn the art of rock-tracing from the 

 Egyptians, if we take for granted that they went there? 

 There is a roughness of design which I think seems to 

 preclude that these engravings on stones could have been 

 made by Egyptians coming North. The very great number 

 seems to imply that they were made by the inhabitants, that 



