Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-03-20

then 1t Is that must sacrifice the whole OF
my property. (Slgned) Isis
The above, the lecturer thought, more
than any other instance showed the exact
equality Of the sexes.
Another curious fact is that husbands
instead Of giving their names to their
wives, the wives gave theirs to thsir hus-
bands and tue Chi dren, boys aud girls,
took the mothers family name.
The urer next spoke OF Queen Hatasu
as the most prominent figure in auoient
history. She was the daughter Of King
Thothmes l., living about 1400 or 1900 b.
q. She was the only daughter and eldest
child Of the King and inherited the dual
crown OF Upper and Lower Egypt. In
early chill hood she was welded to her
brother, Ihothmes II. He died yonng,
and according to law she should have
married her younger brother, Thothmes
Ill. But she chose to reign alone. She
was great queen aud has received the
name Of the Queen Elizabeth OF those
early times. Sue was this great building
queen. She erected the finest monu-
ments, temples and ubelisks. Some of
the last mentioned were OF gigantic size
and cut from the quarries OF Assouan.
The papyrus says two OF them were com
pleted in Beven months. She crested d
beautiful temple near CGrnac on the right
bank of the Nils.
On the walls of this temple are series
of carvings and inscriptions which provo
her to be the greatest sovereign Of Egypt.
They describe an expedition Of ships to
fsr distant land on the sea coast. An
ambassador sails from Thebes with q
retinue of followers to the land OF Punt.
This has been identified by the writings
Us 5omali land, contiguous to the coast
of the modern Abyasinia.
A large outlins map OF Europe aud
Africa was shown on the camera sheet
The problem was to prove how from the
central part Of northern Africa squad
ron Of ships could fad its way down the
Nile to the led Sen Oh course it is
understood what marine difficulties the
small ships OF those times, propelled
largely by banks OF oars and the nRvi-
gators entirely Ignorant of ocean travel,
would have in reaching the north east
corner ct Africa. The only papable
course would be westerly through the
Mediterranean By the Pillars OF HERCULES
(tflbraltar), and then south following the
course FIST discovered by Vasco da CANA
5000 years later. But the supposition
was ridiculous. Miss Edwards asserted
that the ships sailed down the Nile to that
point where the Sweet Water canal used
| hy Ds Lesseps when building the Suez
canal) joins the Nile. Then propelling
the ships by the oars 10 the Gulf OF Suez,
the northeastern arm of the Red Sea,
down tine latter, and the eastern coast of
Africa was reached. This was the solving
Of the problem, which the lecturer as
serted was abuniantly proved in the
carving and inscriptions OF Queen
| Hatasu's temple at Uarnac.
Immense pictures from these carvings
were thrown on the sheet. They de
scsl5ed the embassy, the arrival at Pant
and the extremely lsughable personal ap-
| pesrance Of the Prince Of Punt, his lanky
| appearance and the gross cnaractesistics
| OF the princess. The latter, like the
Ethiopian Venus which attracted such
\ attention at the great Paris Industrial
Exp sitinn was conspicuous for the per
sonBl attribute Of steatopyga. Miss Ed
wards stated that European doctors
quasreled over the phenomena, one set OF
dlseutants claiming that the appearance
Wea simply elephantiasis, others that i,
Is the usual negro attribute Of female
beauty as the gage exists in Central
Africa even to the present day.
A most beautiful and gigantic head OF
Hatasu was showl, also ons of the grand.
mother of Shishak (the biblical char
acter, King OF Egypt who captured
Jerusalem The latter monument is the
Oldest authenticated sculpture in the
world.
A picture OF Queen Hatasu's chair
aroused particular interest on account OF
the fact that the lecturer was the indi
vidual who had the distinction of idsnti.
foing its historical exaclness for the
British museum.