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foreigners into the Delta, says, " They have already advanced into the 

 fields of Egypt, from the boundary of the river onwards. They have 

 gained a firm footing, and spent days and months therein. [They 

 have] settled themselves [near the towns]. It was a privilege ever 

 since the kings of upper Egypt, on the grounds of the historical 

 records of other times. But no one knows [that they ever came in 

 large numbers] like vermin. They have come to Egypt to seek 

 sustenance for their mouths.'''' 



Page 314. — " Then the mercenaries of his Majesty took what he had 

 left of his property, his money which he had gathered in, his silver, 

 his gold, his vessels of iron.'" 



Page 315. — Thou wilt be the man who will undertake it, by giving 

 orders to kill [the rebels among the inhabitants] in the land of the 

 Tamahu [of the Libu]. 



Circ. B.C. 1261. "Such was the great battle of Prosopis, which 

 took place in the 5th year of the reign of Meneptah. With the 

 Lybians, who were held in contempt by the Egyptians as uncircum- 

 cised, were joined mercenary troops of the Caucaso- Colchian race, who 

 in these times had migrated into their country and rendered military 

 service, partly in J^gypt and partly in Lyhia.''' 



Page 316. — The whole coast beyond, as far as Cyrene, appears to 

 have been a gathering ground of loarlilce adventurers of the Colchio- 

 Cretan tribes, up to the Dardani, whose name is again reflected in the 

 Greek designation of the town Dardanis. 



Page 321. — User-Kha-Pa-Solep-en-Ea = Set-nekht {circ. B.C. 1233). 

 All that we are able to say of him can be condensed into a few words : 

 he was the father of a great king, and he lived in times full of dis- 

 turbance and trouble. 



Page 322. — Nor was it only against native claimants of the throne- 

 that this prince had to wage war, foreigners also contributed to turn 

 Egypt upside down. The people of Egypt lived in banishment abroad.. 

 " The land of Egypt belonged to princes from foreign parts. They" 

 slew one another, whether noble or mean. Other times came after- 

 wards during years of scarcity." 



Page 325. — XXth Dynasty, Ramessu-Haq-on = Eamses III. {circ. 

 B.C. 1200). The miserable state of Egypt before his accession could not 

 be better described than in his own words, cited in the last chapter. 

 He was next occupied with wars against foreign nations. 



Page 326, — Nations who had invaded the borders of Egypt. A war 

 was next kindled by the Lybians and Maxyes, who, as before, under 

 Meneptah II., made an inroad into the Delta, and occupied the whole 



