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a mixed race, which both were ; and the third, governed 

 by a fairer high featured tribe of real Caucasians, 

 were most likely the last comers, and in part a pri- 

 vileged body of conquerors ; they were, collectively, 

 the Gouptas, Koptos, said to have followed the mytho- 

 logical Menes,* who first nestled in the marshes of the 

 delta, and most likely came by sea from Asia Minor. 

 They obtained and kept the ruling power, the Phara- 

 onic crown and priesthood for ages, in their hands, 

 although they were neither the authors of the civiliza- 

 tion, nor of the religious doctrines of the land. The 

 enormous army, with excessive privileges, maintained 

 by the state, and forces often called in from abroad, 

 warrant this opinion. The conjecture is strengthened 

 by the prohibition the government gave to all marine 

 enterprise on the Red Sea, and the early and long 

 continuance of supremacy it exercised over Syria; 

 and finally, by the reminiscence of hostilities in High 

 Asia, which prompted the greatest of the Egyptian 

 kings to make repeated inroads as far as Bactria, 

 though ever with ephemeral results. At length the 

 sceptre passed from them to the Cushites, who, in time, 

 were again subdued by new hordes of High Asia; 

 while the Cushite nation secured the coast of Abys- 

 sinia, Nubia, and Egypt, up to the Port of Aphrodite : 

 this was the Ethiopia of Africa, Thosh or Etaush, and 



* Menes, the same as Manu, who binds the ark to the 

 peak of Himavahn ; and Meru whose holy mountain was 

 west of Cabul, near Bamean, and ancestor of Rama ; but 

 it may be a name for Joktan. 



