CHAP. XV. RED-HAIIIED MEN TYPHONIAN. 



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against them, it is too much to suppose they 

 thought them unworthy to live ; and they were 

 probably contented to express their dislike to 

 foreigners, who were noted for that peculiarity, 

 by applying to them some reproachful name ; as 

 the Chinese contemptuously designate us '* red- 

 haired barbarians." " In Egypt," says Diodorus, 

 *' few are found with red hair ; among foreigners 

 many."* Such, indeed, was the prejudice against 

 them, that " they would not willingly converse 

 with people of that complexion t j " and whenever 

 they wished to show their contempt for a northern 

 race, they represented them on their sandals, and 

 in other humiliating positions, with red hair, and 

 of a yellow colour. t This contempt for strangers 

 induced the Egyptian architects to introduce them 

 supporting on their heads portions of buildings, as 



No. 473. Heads of foreigners which'once sup- No. 474. Enemies as the footstool of a king, 

 ported part of the ornamental architecture Thebes. 



at Meedenet Haboo in Thebes. 



in the pavilion of King Remeses at Thebes ; where 

 they occupy the same uncomfortable positions 



* Diodor. i. 88. 



X Vide Vol. I. p. 3G6. 



t Plut. s. 3.3. 



