in the great court, and the entrance to the grand hall, a lateral gate is seen, which 
connects a court, built by Shishak, with the great Temple. On the walls of this 
gate, Champollion found the figure of a bearded man, like a Jew, bound, and under 
it the cartouche of Maleh Judah, King of Judah. The hieroglyphics record the 
victories of Shishak, the Pharaoh of Scripture, who, in the time of Rehoboam, the 
son of Solomon, invaded Jerusalem, and carried off vast treasures. Here the event 
is recorded in the language of ancient Egypt, and confirms the narrative in Scripture, 
1 Kings, xiv. 
This general view of the great Temple of Karnak exhibits its entire extent from tne 
great propylon to the extremity of the Temple, a length of one thousand one hundred 
and eighty feet, and the outer wall of circumvallation exceeded two thousand in length; 
which fully justifies the statement of Diodorus, that the circuit of the most ancient of 
the four temples of Thebes measured thirteen stadia—a mile and five furlongs. 
NUBIAN WOMEN AT KORTI. 
Though the Nubian women are dark in their complexions even to blackness, they 
have nothing else that should class them with Negroes; on the contrary, their features 
are finely formed, and even Greek in character, with a striking expression, which, 
when mantling into a smile, shows their white and beautiful teeth, increased in brilliancy 
by contrast with their dark features. 
With the exception of a girdle, or apron, of straps of leather decorated with shells 
(generally corries), the young women go entirely naked: their forms are beautiful, 
and their habit of carrying water-jars on their heads gives a grace and dignity to 
their mien, and an elegance to their attitudes and actions, that offer the most beautiful 
studies to a sculptor: and, to their honour be it recorded, they are, unlike the modern 
Egyptians, remarkable for their chastity. When they marry, their costume is changed; 
they then wear a coarse white cotton dress, which hangs loosely but gracefully about 
them. They sometimes tattoo their faces and bodies, and wear large pendent rings; 
but both these detract from their beauty. 
The most remarkable part of their costume, however, lies in the way in which 
they dress their hair: in this they preserve the coiffure of the ancient Egyptians, 
wearing it in an infinite number of plaits, which are decorated with shells; they then 
daub it over with a sort of pomade, made by pounding the bean of the castor-oil 
plant, and with this they also lubricate their bodies, to soften and protect their skins. 
In this hot climate such anointing may be necessary, but the fetor thus produced 
is a most powerful repellent to charms otherwise irresistible. 
Roberts’s Journal. 
