EGYPTIAN EMIGRANTS. 
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offence to his Egyptian troops, by “ keeping them in 
the distant frontier towns of Marea, Daphne of Pelu- 
sium, and Elephantine,” they became disaffected, and 
to the number of 240,000 retired into Upper Ethiopia. 
“They entered the service of the monarch of that 
country, and in return received a considerable extent 
of territory upon the confines, from which the Ethiopian 
prince ordered them to expel a tribe of people at that 
time in rebellion against him ; and this migration of 
the Egyptian’^ troops introducing the arts and manners 
of a refined nation, had a very sensible effect in 
civilizing the Ethiopians f.” 
It is impossible such an influx of intelligent colonists 
— not forgetting other frequent communications with 
Egypt — could fail to cause great alterations, and the 
introduction of many rehgious and civil institutions 
among the negroes ; and this once commenced, would 
like the circle in disturbed water, gradually diffuse 
itself among remote tribes, and though leaving but 
slight impression on the more distant, still enough, to 
show it had reached them. The Negroland of Abys- 
* Vide Wilkinson, as deduced from Herodotus, 1st Series, vol. i., 
p. 153. 
t That these were already acknowledged as an altered nation we 
find the prophet Jeremiah, chap, xxv., v. 24, about the date of that 
occurrence, alluding to kings “ of the mingled people that dwell in 
the desert,” and Ezekiel, at a rather later period, about 570 yeai-s 
B.c. in his denunciations against Egypt, Ethiopia, and Libya, 
(chap. XXX., V. 4 and 5) speaks of them as “all the mingled 
people.” . j 
