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were long at war with the Egyptians, and part of their 
country, which was reduced at a very remote period 
by the arms of the Pharaohs, was obliged to pay an 
annual tribute to the conquerors* and we find among 
the representations, of those engaged in bringing the 
acknowledgment of their subjection, during the reign 
of Thothmes III. in the eighteenth dynasty, long rows 
of negroes, figured in waistcloths of narrow striped 
manufacture, and some with armlets and beads round 
their necks, who bear elephants’ teeth, woodsf, pottery, 
and animals ; some of which latter depicted in the Tem- 
ple of Kalabsha, convinced Burckhardt that the Copts 
had extended their warfare “ into a country inhabited 
of which is yet found among the Bluebarras and Knis, the hanhi of the 
Fantis, and the very general way of securing the infants to the back, 
or resting on the hip. There is also, at page 385 of the same volume, 
a figure (No. 9) of a black from the interior of Africa, who wears a 
loose dress very much resembling the tobe, still so commonly used in 
the upper part of the Niger and in Central Africa, He has also the 
massive ivory or metal bracelets. If this and the preceding figures 
are compared with Nos. 13, A, B, C, D, depicted as the true Cush or 
Ethiopian, we cannot avoid coming to the conclusion, that the con- 
quered nation “ whose name is lost” was one from Central or South- 
western Africa. 
* Wilkinson’s Manners and Ciistotns of the Egyptians^ 1st Series, 
vol. i., p. 387. 
t Refening to various articles in use by the Egyptians, Sir 
Gardner Wilkinson says, “The first (ebony) came from the interior 
of Africa, and formed with ivory, gold, ostrich feathers, dried fruits 
and skins, the object of the annual tribute brought to Egypt by the 
conquered tribes of Ethiopia and the Soodan.”— 2nd Series, vol. i., 
page 82. 
