The Washington times., 1919-04-06

to the land of Goshen, l. Ana, travel
ling with him in his chariot. 1t was ther
as now a rich land, quite fiat after the las
line Of desert hills through which we trav
elled by a narrow, tortuous path. Every
where It was watered by canals, between
: which lay the grain fields wherein the seed
had just been sown. Also there were other
fields Of green fodder whereon were teth
cred beasts by the hundred, and beyond
these, upon the drier soil, grazed flocks OF
sheep.
The town Goshen, if so it could be called
was but poor place, numbers of mud huts,
no more, in the centre of which stood a
building, also Of mud with two brick pill
lars in front of it, that we were told was
the temple of this people, into the inner
parts of which none might enter save their
High Priest laughed at the sight of it,
but the Prince reproved me, saying that
1 should not Judge of the spirit Of the
5 body or of the god by his house.
We camped outside this town and soon
n learned that the people who dwelt in it
=, or elsewhere in other towns must be num-
:. bered by the ten thousand for more Of
8. them than l could count wandered round
= the camp to look at us. The men were
p ferce-eyed and hOok-nosed; the young
q women well-shaped and pleasant to be-
>, hold; the older women for the most part
= stout and somewhat unwieIdy, and the
children very beautiful All were roughly
clad in robes of loosely-woven, dark-coL
: ored cloth, beneath which the women wore
garments of white linen. Notwithstanding
the wealth we saw about US in corn and
cattle. their ornaments seemed to be few,
or nerhaps these were hidden from our
sight
r. II was easy to see that they hated us
FEevDtians. and even dared to despise US.
Hate shone in their glittering eyes, and
heard them calling us the "idol-worshlp-
:. pers" one to the other and asking where
j. was our god the Bull, for, being ignorant
they thought that we worshipped Apis (as
mayhap some of the common people dol
e instead of looking upon the sacred beast
= as a symbol of the powers OF nature
Indeed, they did more, for on the first
night after out coming they slaughtered
bull marked much as Apis is, and in the
C morning we found it lying near the gate
r of the camp and pinned to its hide with
sharp thorns great numbers Of the scaTa-
. did not know that among US Egyptians this
beetle is no god, but an emblem Of the
Creator because il rolls a ball Of mud be-
tween its feet and sets therein its eggs to
hatch, as the Creator rolls the world that
seems to be round and causes it to pro-
duce life.
Now all we're angry at these insults ex-
cept the Prince, who laughed and said that
he thought the Jest coarse but clever. But
g. worse was to happen. 1t seems that a
soldier with wine in him had done insult
10 a Hebrew maiden who came alone to
= draw water at a canal. The news spread
among the people and some thousands Of
them rushed TO the camp, shouting and
demanding vengeance in so threatening a
manner that it was necessary to form up
the regiments of guards.
The Prince being summoned commanded
that the girl and her kin should be admit
ted and state their case. She came weep
ing and wailing and tearing her garments,
throwing dust on her head also though it
appeared that she had taken no great harm
from the soldier from whom she ran away
The Prince bade her point out the man
If she could see him, and she showed us
one of the bodyguard of the Count Amen
meses, whose face was scratched as
though by a wOman's nails. On being
questioned he said he could remember lit
tie Of the matter, but confessed that he
had seen the maiden by the canal at moon
rise and jested with her.
The kin of this girl clamOred that he
should be killed, because he had offered
insult to a highbOrn lady of Israel This
Seti refused, saying that the offence was
not one of death, but that he would order
him to be publicly beaten.
T1eTeuPOn Amenmeses, who was fond
Of the soldier, a good man enough when
not in his cups, sprang up in a rage, say
ing that no servant Of his should be
touched because he had offered to caress
some light Israelitish woman who had no
business to be wandering about alone at
night. He added that IL the man were
fogged he and all those under his COM
mand would leave the camp and march
back to make report to Pharaoh.
Now the Prince, having consulted with
the councillors, told the woman and her
kin that as Pharaoh had been appealed to,
he must judge of the matter, and COM
manded them 10 appear at his court within
a month and state their case against the
soldier. They went away very dissatisfied
saying that Amenmeses had insulted their
daughter even more than his servant had
done The end Of the matter was that on
the following night this soldier was dis
covered dead, pierced through and through
with knife thTusts. The girl, her parents
and brethren could not be found, having
fed away into the desert, nor was there
any evidence to show by whom the soldier