Photo from I^gjqDt ^Exploration Fund 

 MKRENPTAH^ TPIJ^ PI-IARAOH OP TPIP KXODUS, PPAYING DRAUGHTS : VIGNETTe: ABOVE: 

 TPIE SI^VPNTKPNTH CHAPTpR, BOOK OP THp DpAD, PRO^E TPTp OSIRpION 



-abreast rather than tanclem- — tow a huge 

 barge on which the obehsks are loaded. 

 Despite efforts to restore the broken 

 wall, large gaps yet appear, due to the 

 fasliion of the natives to quarry among 

 the ruins of ancient buildings, to the de- 

 facement of Hatshepsut's work in the 

 interest of later rulers, to the depredation 

 of the Coptic monks, and to the ravages 

 of time. 



The delicately carved and colored re- 

 lief is rich in details — the pilot-boats 

 riding free with their pilots taking the 



soundings, the taut cable, the swinging 

 oars, the tender under the lee of the raft, 

 and the rear line of craft carrying min- 

 istering priests and the royal emblems. 



So under the conduct of more than a 

 thousand men came in state to the abode 

 of her father, Amen, at Karnak, the 

 obelisk now standing and its fallen, 

 broken mate, magnificent monoliths, of 

 which the Queen says : ''Their height 

 pierces to heaven, illuminating the Two 

 Lands like the sun disk. Never was 

 done the like since the beginning." 



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