The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-07-08

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long each bank oy this river IL a
narrow strip oy land which In a.
rich as fertilizer factory. made %
by the annual freshets. the deposits
bein' very rich. On the two strips oy
land, only small portion ov Egypt
IL the homes oy nearly awl ov her
ten million people. Just think fer 9
moment what that means-ten mil
lions ov people in a small country.
an awl ov them-nearly-livin' on
the banks ov one river. the only
river in, that country! We Ameri-
cans do not appreciate what we hev
With awl ov our boosted good quail
ties we air forever kickin' at every
thing in site.
| An Egypt IL an old country. Hit
liz better now than hit wuz. little
better. But hit moves slowly. Here
you see the mummied forms ov PEG.
pie who lived two thousand years be-
fore Christ. You see the work ov
men that used to stone chisel before
Abraham wuz born; and you see
/ paint Ihat "u6 put oh AAAh6o AoAi
] thousand years ergo an hit liz still
| guide, which goes ter show that the
Egyptians knew how to do a few
things well.
| Thousands oy years ergo Egypt
wuZ divided, bein' called upper an
! lower Egypt, an thar WIZ two Kings
A fellow by the name ov Menes got
in ter be King ov one portion an
! he united the two countries one dark
| mite when most ov the folks wuz
asleep. He named himself Lord
| of both lands" an. then had a
double crown built. The people did
. MT seem ter care, or didn't find hit
out, so he kept things a running in
| that shape durin' hiz term an hit liz
SO so yet.
They liz lots ter look ter look at
in Cairo. Here you see the Museum
! of Gizah, which IL full ov the best
| speciments ov the old curiosities
found in Egypt. An this saves you
a lot ov trouble.
One ov the sights IL the Karnack
temple. Hit liz in rufus, but the
great blocks ov stone an marble air
still in guide shape an part ov the
] great walls air still standin' Hit liz
f. sed hit took twelve hundred years ter
build this vast temple, an nearly
thirty kings, had part in the build
| in. Thutmosis began the work an
hit wuz not finished until the reign
ov Ptolemies. The temple contain
ed many antiquities, such az num-
mics ov Kings, sorcophogi, statues,
an hieroglyphics from many statues.
The old Egyptians believed that man
wuz double, an ordinary body, then
sort ov invisible form, then the
soul, a human-headed bird bein' the
| supposed shape Ov the soul. They
| awlso thought that the body con-
/ tanned a spark ov fire. Hit wuz ter
preserve awl ov this that they re-
sorted to embalming, an they used
a fluid ov somethin' that undertake
ers would give guide deal to learn
/ how to make nowadays. Thousands
ov these mumified bodies air found
in Egypt today. The persons died
probably six thousand ov years ergo,
but their bodies hev bin preserved
| through awl the long years. In some
cases these mummies look better, air
more natural in appearance than air
| the bodies ov a few livin' people
mite name An this awl goes ter
show that the people ov Egypt must
| hev bin smart in way in the long
| ergo, though they don't more than
put up a good average now.
At one point on the river Nile
some distance from Cairo, liz a col
lection ov forty-two graves or tombs.
They contain the mummies ov that
many Kings. They air hewn out ov
solid, stone an air very large. One
ov them wuz hewn out ter depth
ov three hundred and thirty feet In
the solid rock. A flight ov stone
steps leads anvil the way to the bot,
tom. The granite walls air covered
with pictures, painted in cOlOrs that
must be everlastin' an the pictures
represent the King az maxim offer.
ms ter the various gods that they
worshipped in that day. While this
liz the largest an most expensive o1
the royal graves, anvil ov the forty
two air. wonderful ter look at. Hi
must hev taken many years ter com
plete even one of these tombs.
Erbout eighteen miles from Cairo
there IL a collection ov tombs OF
prominent people, evidently, but the!
air unknown to fame. One ov thes'
, tombs liz covered with paintins o.
drawins that hev attracted artist
t from awl the world, fer they al
! painted with that indestructibl
l paint that could only be made IL
( Egypt One ov the picturs repre-
sents a boy fattinin' geese by tn
stuffin' process, az practiced by tn
Jews today. Another pictur show
oxen an other cattle bein' drive
, through a river. Still others repre-
a sent farm scenes ov various kinds
: carpenterin', ship-buildin', an othe
o things. The question liz not "wh
4 painted these pictures?" fer hit don
matter; but who invented a pain
that will an hez lasted fer thousand
q ov years, an is still bright an ric
in color, even though inside OF
damp cave, on damp rock
The sarcophagi (golly what words
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